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The Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock, The (1938), a musical drama by Marc Blitzstein (book, music, lyrics). [Windsor Theatre, 108 perf.] Steeltown is run by the rich, greedy Mr. Mister ( Will Geer) who dominates not merely the town's industry but its press, its church, and its social organization. Larry Foreman (... Read more |
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Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills 1884-1937, American political leader, b. Newport, R.I. He practiced law in New York City and became an active Republican party leader. He served (1914-17) in the New York state legislature and then (1921-27) in the U.S. Congress, where he was noted as a fiscal expert. He was... Read more |
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Alvin Cullum York
Alvin Cullum York 1887-1964, American soldier known as Sergeant York, b. Fentress co., Tenn. He was reared on a back-country farm in Tennessee. A conscientious objector at the beginning of World War I, he later agreed to fight and was credited with killing 25 German soldiers, capturing 132 others,... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hawes
HAWES, Elizabeth American designer Born: Ridgewood, New Jersey, 16 December 1903. Education: Studied at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1921-25. Family: Married Ralph Jester in 1930 (divorced, 1934); married Joseph Losey in 1937 (divorced, 1944), son: Gavrik Losey. Career: Worked in... Read more |
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Sir Hyde Parker
Sir Hyde Parker 1739-1807, British admiral. In the American Revolution he broke (1776) the defenses of the Hudson River at New York City—an exploit for which he was knighted in 1779. He later held commands in the Mediterranean, Jamaica, and the North Sea in the French Revolutionary and... Read more |
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American Museum of Natural History (New York New York)
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts in a vast complex of... Read more |
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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a self-supporting, interstate, corporate organization of New York and New Jersey. It was created in 1921 to protect and promote the commerce of New York Harbor and... Read more |
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Gail Carson Levine
Levine, Gail Carson 1947-PersonalBorn September 17, 1947, in New York, NY; daughter of David (owner of a commercial art studio) and Sylvia (a teacher) Carson; married David Levine (a software developer), September 2, 1967. Education: City College of the City University of New York, B.A.,... Read more |
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Counterinsurgency
...Communist‐influenced insurgencies, what Soviet premier...Americans.Actually, insurgency and counterinsurgency...independence movements and insurgencies around the world...could be used against insurgency by any political group...to left‐center ... |
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Pacification
...reform governments besieged by insurgency or external subversion...Depending on the nature of the insurgency, pacification can take a...the military capability of insurgencies. By disrupting the guerrillas...scope and intensity of an insurgency can be ... |
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Iraq War
...country. A multi‐faceted Iraqi insurgency, however, brought rising casualties...militants from outside Iraq joined the insurgency. Power struggles among these diverse...contrary to what some had predicted, the insurgency continued.Mea |
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Rostow, Walt W.
...Rostow thesis,” which held that an externally supported insurgency could be defeated only by military action against the external...military measures designed to raise the cost of supporting the insurgency. As the number of American ground troops in Vietnam increased... |
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Monroe Doctrine
...1961), the Dominican Republic (1965), Chile (1973), and Grenada (1983), as well as to active involvement in the insurgencies in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. In each case the United States either overthrew, or attempted to overthrow... |
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NKVD
...rather than NKGB.To carry out its functions the NKVD had at its disposal a vast apparatus of agents, internal counter-insurgency and border troops, and units responsible for communications. A Soviet estimate puts the number of NKVD troops during the... |
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Political Questions
...more democratic, government with Thomas W. Dorr as governor. The charter government rejected the validity of the Dorr insurgency and sought to retain political control of the state by force. The incumbent governor declared martial law, and many of the... |
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Scotland
...prompted the constitutional union of the two crowns in the Act of Union (1707). At Culloden Moor (1746), the Jacobite insurgency was finally suppressed with the defeat of the Highlanders led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. (See United Kingdom for subsequent... |
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United Irishmen, Society of
...and even of a settling of accounts with ‘heretic’ Protestants.During 1797 the campaign of determined counter‐insurgency directed by General Lake severely weakened the United Irish organization in its Ulster heartland. In spring 1798 the focus... |
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Vietnam War
...President Ngo Dinh Diem cancelled elections in South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh denounced the action and the Viet Cong launched an insurgency. Fuelled by fear of the spread of communism, the USA supported the Diem government and sent its first troops in 1961. The... |
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insurgency
insurgency •radiancy •immediacy, intermediacy •expediency • idiocy • saliency...intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy... |
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revolutionary insurgency
revolutionary insurgency see low intensity conflict. |
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Rostow thesis
...by Walt W. Rostow, which held that an externally supported insurgency could be defeated only by military action against the external...measures designed to raise the cost of supporting the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam. |
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abbacy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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accountancy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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adjutancy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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apostasy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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aristocracy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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autocracy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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benignancy
...regency •astringency, contingency, stringency •intransigency • exigency • cogency •pungency •convergency, emergency, insurgency, urgency •vacancy • piquancy • fricassee •mendicancy • efficacy • prolificacy •insignificancy • delicacy • intricacy... |
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uprising
...overthrow, putsch; fighting in the streets. USAGE NOTES insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, putsch, rebellion, revolution...effort to seize power, especially political power, while an insurgency is usually aided by foreign powers. If you're on a ship... |
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rebellion
...noun 1. troops suppressed the rebellion synonyms: uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, insurgence, insurgency; rioting, riot, disorder, unrest.See note at uprising. 2. an act of rebellion synonyms: defiance, disobedience... |
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mutiny
mutiny • noun synonyms: rebellion, revolt, insurrection, insurgence, insurgency, uprising, rising, riot, revolution, resistance, disobedience, defiance, insubordination, protest, strike. |
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insurrection
insurrection • noun synonyms: rebellion, revolt, revolution, uprising, rising, riot, mutiny, sedition, coup, coup d'état, putsch; insurgency, insurgence. |
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceptualizing...
...Afghanistan and the Iraq insurgency. The distinction between...national and liberation insurgencies is not always clear. An insurgency can contain elements...internal unity within the insurgency easier. Insurgencies vary across time and... |
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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.
...agenda because the Iraqi insurgency, unlike the classic East Asian communist insurgencies of the 1950s and 1960s...Indeed, the Iraqi insurgency, as a Sunni Arab enterprise...enemies. Indeed, when insurgencies win, they almost always...as a mistake, the ... |
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HOW INSURGENCIES END: KEY INDICATORS, TIPPING POINTS, AND STRATEGY.
...possible to shape insurgency endings with sufficient...variables help define insurgencies - local culture...civilians to report on insurgency activity to the...significant. Insurgencies with more than...causes of the insurgency are strong ... |
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ARTICLE: How insurgencies end.
...was vital for insurgencies. Mao Tse-Tung...estimated that once an insurgency gained the support...insurgency and the insurgency would end quickly...at countering insurgencies, averaging a...that inspired the insurgency and ... |
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The Iraqi Insurgency, After Saddam
...Sunday (NPR) 12-31-2006 The Iraqi Insurgency, After Saddam Host: ANDREA SEABROOKTime...Play Audio ANDREA SEABROOK, host: The insurgency that has exploded across much of Iraq...any, the execution will have on that insurgency. Professor FOUAD AJAMI (Johns Hopkins... |
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COUNTER-INSURGENCY POLITICS: Going Global
...the conditions of global insurgency maintain that colonial era...groups. Global counter-insurgency theory, as it has evolved...undermine local support for insurgencies, global counter-insurgency argues that this grievance... |
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IRAQ: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, by Ahmed S. Hashim. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...literature, much of it of mixed quality. But Ahmed Hashim's Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq stands out in part due to the... |
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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.(Book review)
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq. By Ahmad S. Hashim. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.482 pp. + xxviii. $29.95. The Iraqi insurgency continues to bedevil U.S. plans for a new Iraq. Hashim... |
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Of shoes and sites: globalization and insurgency.
...distinction between insurgencies and insurgency movements is...target the insurgency politically...Successful insurgencies have certain...movement allow insurgencies to garner popular...effectively. An insurgency must ... |
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Assessing Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency.(political activities of Saddam Hussein)
...still surround the insurgency in Iraq's Sunni Triangle...character of the Sunni Arab insurgency, which is being waged...insurgent warfare also make insurgencies difficult to assess...an early end to the insurgency. In each case, their...historical ... |
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