Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was some record for a monarch who once seemed ineffectual and powerless to stave off the growing discontent of Iran's poor masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the...
Discontent with taxes is nothing new in history. Over the centuries, it has been an explosive force. Both the American and French revolutions were brought on in part by taxpayer disaffection. But today's tax-revision tide is essentially different from the elemental discontent shared by all burdened taxpayers throughout...
The prison has a rated capacity of only 800 prisoners, but the filthy cells are crammed with 2,180 men. Some have been waiting three years for their cases to come to trial. At noon one day last week, discontent in Villa Devoto reached the flash point. Attempting a mass...
Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst...
When Fidel Castro publicly admitted "a well-founded reason for discontent" developing between Cuba and the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikoyan raced for Havana. By its lack of interest in this discontent, however, the Administration suggests that its ultimate aim is not to undermine Soviet control but simply to crush socialism...