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• n  `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

• Their forebears went by other names: doughboys, Yanks, buffalo soldiers, Johnny Reb, Rough Riders.
• The reb els are getting bolder.
• On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats.

• Rebel
• Reb
• Johnny Reb
• Johnny
• greyback

News & Articles

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• Police & fire log; man accused of choking brother - 7/6
  James Reb, 32, Lebanon, was charged with simple assault and making terroristic threats, accused of choking and threatening to kill his brother about 12:05 a.m. Friday in the 700 block of South 14th Street, police said.
  July 6, 2013 - Lebanon Daily News
• Coke and PureCircle seek GRAS status for new 'Rebaudioside X' stevia
  The Coca-Cola Company and JV partner PureCircle have discovered and made progress in developing a new stevia-based food ingredient Rebaudioside X and are seeking GRAS approval for it in the US.
  July 1, 2013 - Food Navigator USA

Quotes

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• Mitch Albom in Bucks Local News
  The Reb and the pastor took the cynicism out of me,said Albom.
• Robert Khayat in USA Today
  People have mostly let go of the past. They've (put) our past to museums, where they belong. We don't have Colonel Reb anymore because it's divisive. We don't wave (the Confederate) flag anymore because it's divisive. We're a modern, culturally... Shepard Smith http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Smith&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8yFJcjq6WsqXyAmrFtnxkLEfrzA Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp%3FID%3D279644%26pub%3D1%26div%3DNews&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEzbw6Tbg42n-ZHsjDU5hj9IT6l2g Sep 25, 2008 80894 108837 reb In 2002 the school's chancellor, Robert Khayat, told the student newspaper, We are and will be Ole Miss. We are and will be the Rebels. We do and will continue to play Dixie. Colonel Reb will be the mascot."