Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Friday, rebel officers smuggled 70 students and workers into the fortress of the Honor Guard. The officers and "prisoners" killed the commander and took over the fort. Stragglers from Guatemala City's nightclubs were surprised when they saw armed civilians roaring past in jeeps and motorcycle side-cars...
...patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
Your articles on bed rest (TIME, April 24; Sept. 11) will unnecessarily embarrass late or substantial sleepers like Robert Benchley, and also physicians whose patients rebel at badly needed restriction of activity...
...Mountains. The Louisville crowd, studded with fighting Kentucky Republicans, had cheered Dewey to the rafters, punctured its cheers with rebel yells...
...microphone concealed in the couch. Told about this at the end of the analysis, Harold himself urged the analyst to publish the record.) Without much hesitation, Harold gave the details of a hair-raising career of gun-toting, stealing, vandalism, fornication. Like all psychopaths, Harold was "a rebel without a cause, a revolutionary without a program," a grownup infant with no self-restraint and a craving for instant satisfactions...