The Los Angeles Times fills in the strange happenings at the end of the speech, when the Ayatollah "began lamenting his physical condition and weeping," apparently a sort of signal to loyalists to crack down on demonstrators. The Basij, the government's plain-clothes volunteer militia, has "already been deployed to the streets," the Wall Street Journal adds.
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Private campgrounds across the country have been reinventing themselves from sleepy, rustic campsites to bustling “camp resorts.”Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel.
Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer.
In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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militia
Line breaks: mil|itia
Pronunciation: /mɪˈlɪʃə
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NOUN
Origin
late 16th century: from Latin, literally 'military service', from miles, milit- 'soldier'.
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