Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
From the island-dotted, almost landlocked Gulf of Paria, separating Trinidad from the coast of northeastern Venezuela, Pirate Edward Teach, the infamous Blackbeard, once sallied forth to ravage American ports as far north as Virginia. In the 232 years since Blackbeard's death, the gulf has been a highway for smuggling between Trinidad and the South American mainland. But for a time this month smugglers and even honest fishermen feared to venture to sea. Word had run along the waterfront that once again pirates were operating in the Gulf of Paria...
Here again the Council admitted that the idea was not new with it. But this does not matter. The important thing is that again the students view was going forth--and again it brought results. Two years later President Lowell felt no hesitation about accepting Edward S. Harkness' gift of the House system, for he knew his undergraduates wanted it. Lowell later consulted them extensively on the buildings...
...internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak out to the rank & file...
...persuasive, homespun novel. As the Boers marched north, the beer-guzzling Matabele King Mzilikazi teetered in confusion between the war & peace factions of his court. Yet even his favorite pacifist counselor advised him to fight when the Boers invaded Matabele territory: "The land is ours. Let us call forth our soldiers and fight...