Word: revolutionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Struik dubbed the charges as "absolute nonsense." He admitted sympathy with some Marxist thought but denied being a professional revolutionist...
...requiescat of another sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...
Last week the Communist rebels of Greece announced a successor to the vanished Markos Vafiades (TIME, Feb. 14). The new leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...revolutionist, perhaps, like Lenin," said Pirogov...
...mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood...