Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program and the need for his own vote in the Senate to carry it through. Barkley will bear down on unemployment in Kentucky. Each will trade heavily on his own immense popularity, and for many a Kentucky voter the choice will be difficult. In the words of a Penny-royalist," It'll be 'whittledycut' "-which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race...
...built Sherman tanks, ranged at each end of the tree-lined avenue, dueled for four hours, 75-mm. shells clanging off their World War II armor. The defending Mossadegh forces ran out of ammunition first, and it was all over. The losing commander was turned over to the royalist mob, which pulled him apart. A tank smashed the green grill gate, and thousands of attackers swarmed into the yard. Mossadegh had got away...
...Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British after World War II, the sad-faced, fiercely mustached old soldier won the premiership three times (1945, 1950, 1951), once in a surprise...
Died. Charles Marie Photius Maurras 84, firebrand editor of the royalist, anti-Semitic L'Action Française newspaper philosophical writer (The Three Aspects of President Wilson, The Future of Intelligence) and venomous opponent of the French Republic ("the whore") and democracy ("the mother of anarchy"); in Tours, France. So violent were his pre-World War II attacks against his enemies-of-the-moment that he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, served time in jail for "incitement to murder" and was deluged with libel suits. Convicted in 1945 of collaborating with the Nazis, he had served seven years...
...Lulu took a transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...