Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...
...they are more daring," he carefully summarized. "But they have more and more pressures to be submergent to a mass. The young man is tricked into not realizing the pressures to belong to a mass, a group which wants to do his thinking for him, give him his ideas." Rebel Faulkner's final advice: "The young man must struggle against the mass...
...there are four 0-words the people refuse to give up: hope. love, valor, and one other that remains not too mysteriously hidden until the final pages. The islanders rebel and, with the aid of beneficent magic, rout the pirates. Like his charming 1950 fable, The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's new fairy story is written for a special breed of children and adults-those who like their anagrams and riddles sprinkled with poetic dust. Curiously, the author deprives Pirate Black of an argument that might have won the Ooroovians to his cause: even with the abolition...
...Macmillan had the votes, despite his government's stammering defensiveness, and won the test of confidence -308 to 259. Aside from the eight rebel backbenchers, only six Tories, including Sir Anthony Eden's nephew John, failed to support the government. Even the blimpest of Blimps had to recognize that Macmillan had no practical alternative to allowing British ships through the canal at Nasser's price...
Southern editors raced to combat with rebel yells and a battery of 105-mm. inkpots. Companies of cartoonists fired from sniper positions at the top of editorial pages, while the columnists, of course, made up the fifth column. SOUTHERN BLOOD BOILS! screamed the Jackson, Miss. News. SACRILEGE! shouted Tennessee's Kingsport Times. "President Eisenhower," sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, "must have lost his mind...