Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek Civil War's land front was drawn last week along the River Struma in Eastern Macedonia, famed for non-Greek wars in 42 B. C. and 1917 A. D. Day after day General Kondylis announced, "We have crushed the rebels." Day after day, rain, snow and sleet froze the two armies in their tracks in the shadow of the mountains of Boz. Both sides fought best with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over...
...eleventh day of the revolution, Venizelos' generals threw in the sponge and scuttled for the Bulgarian frontier. Their automobile stuck in the Boz snowdrifts and they crossed the frontier on foot, their baggage on their backs. Rebel General Demetrius Kamenos told newshawks: "Our efforts to overthrow the Tsaldaris regime must, at least for the moment, be abandoned...
High over the ocean came federal bombing planes from the mainland, to zoom down on the rebel fleet anchored at Suda Bay. One bomb landed squarely on the bridge of the Averoff, an explosion that caused howls of dismay in London...
...audience was on its feet, cheering, clapping, stamping. A professor of mathematics put two fingers in his mouth, whistled. From the rear came a rebel yell. Not for minutes did the audience quiet down sufficiently to thunder through a resolution asking Senator Nye's Munitions Investigation Committee to dig into the Hearst Press...
Bulgaria and Turkey are laying serious and singularly similar charges at each other's doors. Each accuses the other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty...