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Word: discontentment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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His enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Vengeance for the Druzes | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Most French Canadians abhor such lunatic-fringe suggestions. But many are nonetheless prepared to give the Queen a cool reception. In Quebec last week the 300,000-member St. Jean-Baptiste Society, a highly nationalistic group, urged French Canadians to "give the authorities unequivocal evidence of their discontent by staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Uncertain Welcome | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

The source of the rampant discontent is a new system under which the Central Kitchen Houses will have their serving personnel periodically rotated among the five halls. Some of the women had previously worked in the same House for as many as 15 years.

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Winthrop Petitions Central Kitchens For Return of Own Serving-Ladies | 10/6/1964 | See Source »

If Iraq's simmering discontent bubbles over again, Aref's foes could be more than a match for the strong, specially selected armed force with T-54 tanks that guard his presidential palace day and night.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Plot That Failed | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Whether you attribute it to prejudice or prosperity, whether you call it bigotry or backlash, anxiety or anomie, there is obviously a discontent in this country of considerable proportions. To counter it will require more than statistics on economic growth, and more than charges of "extremism"....

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldwater 'Appeal' | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

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