Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's lull between the opening cannonades of the great Word War of 1936, disgruntled Democratic veterans and guerrilla chieftains made news maneuvering in the political No Man's Land between Republican and Democratic trenches...
After serving four years in the Imperial German Army, Carl von Ossietzky made up his mind once & for all against War. As early as 1921 he was organizing German Peace Society meetings in Berlin, while the remnants of the German Army fought a guerrilla warfare with French troops in the Rhineland...
...haired zealot is Joseph Lewis, 46, onetime shirtmaker who calls himself "The Enemy of God." As president of the Freethinkers of America, Inc. (30,000 members at $1 a year), Mr. Lewis does a thriving business in anti-religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the Enemy of God was again trying to have...
...contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces of Federal troops and militia...
...eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills, the compact crinkle-bearded old man scrambled up into Sana, city of 40,000, and squatted in his throne room where the only ornament on the dark blue walls is his own scimitar. Refusing to abdicate, he set about...