Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...differently. First they sent a Polish official in London to see the seven in jail, armed with letters from their relatives. "We had and still have much trouble be cause of you, and the amount of tears we have shed would nearly make a bath for you," wrote one rebel's family. The sailors recognized the letters as having been writ ten under pressure. Dropping all pretense, the Polish government brusquely demanded the sailors extradition...
...Christian Fouchet, was under heavy pressure by his fellow Gaullists to show an iron hand in North Africa. Thus, with neither man left much room for maneuvering, Fouchet and Ben Amar dickered for days, trying to find some way to end the months-long guerrilla war between Tunisian fellaghas (rebel bandits) and French Union troops...
...social and political temper of our times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity in the group, gang, mob or herd. The psychopath is a rebel without a cause-hence, in a chronic state of mutiny. He strives solely for the satisfaction of his moment-to-moment desires. Raw need is all that drives...
...forced from without to conform and from within to rebel, Lindner holds, man makes a compromise: "He rebels within the confines of conformity, he discharges his protest within the limits set by the social order that he has permitted to be erected around him." In a special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...
...defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...