Word: rebels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...father's mottoes was "We can't all of us be honored by titles and degrees but we can all be Knights of the Daily Bath." As a Harvard rebel, Cummings more or less gave up washing. Mother sometimes managed to steal his shoes at night to give them a respectable shine...
...week's end active mass resistance appeared to have been suppressed. But Soviet forces in the major cities remained on full alert as rebel leaders threatened a new round of guerrilla attacks. Rumors of an outright reign of terror, with summary executions of suspected Muslim instigators, seemed certain to compound seething popular resentment. Said a Western diplomat: "The Soviets may have succeeded in subduing the population in this first round, but that is not the end of the affair, knowing these hot-blooded Afghans." Added another: "The quagmire Moscow has created for itself is getting deeper and deeper...
...film Phantom of the Paradise, as the satanic superproducer) and eulogized by musicians, rock critics and Tom Wolfe (in one of his best pieces of razzmatazz, The First Tycoon of Teen). The vaulting arrangements and majestic delirium of songs such as Be My Baby and He's a Rebel and River Deep-Mountain High and You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts to duplicate "the Spector wall of sound" only ring hollow, like a Salvation Army rock band playing in a subway tunnel...
...Party Boss Babrak Karmal was ordered to clamp martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the capital. Soviet troop reinforcements were rushed into the city to put down growing disturbances. Nonetheless, firefights that caused at least 50 casualties broke out in several parts of the city. As rebel leaders threatened to mount a full-scale attack on Kabul in March, intelligence officials in Washington could scarcely contain their glee at the Soviets' discomfiture. Said one defense analyst: "They've really got their feet in the quagmire...
...ferocity of Afghan resistance to Soviet rule was shown in a remarkable pictorial report of a rebel ambush-and the subsequent execution of a hapless Soviet prisoner-that appeared last week in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Richard Ben Cramer, a staff reporter for the Inquirer, and Italian Photographer Salvatore Vitale spent eight days accompanying Muslim rebel units in the mountains near the Pakistan border. They were witnesses when a rebel patrol spotted a Soviet vehicle traveling cautiously through a gully, raked it with automatic weapons fire and killed the driver. His passenger, a lieutenant in his late 20s, was taken prisoner...