Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will keep on buying more stock, "based on Mr. Romney's confidence that A.M.C. will be operating profitably in early 1958." Wolfson committed himself to vote for Romney at the annual meeting next February, even sent Romney home with a personal Wolfson order for one Nash Rambler Rebel...
...colonels at the palace, in a backslapping meeting reminiscent of a class reunion. When photographers' flashbulbs popped around Sukarno's onetime bodyguard, Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, who had taken power in East Indonesia, Sumual protested in Dutch: "My God, you all think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...
Coup or Election? Every Cuban now expects that next week or next month, the strongman who can keep power but cannot keep order will face another assassination attempt or bloody attack. Also wearing away at his regime is the tiny guerrilla uprising under Rebel Fidel Castro in eastern Cuba's rugged mountains...
...petty officers-had been spending one day a week at a Cuban school, which is presumably where they picked up their sympathy for Castro. About three weeks ago they slipped away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking up foreign arms...
...rebels it was good propaganda, and the Castro underground quickly smuggled out photographs of the boys in their battle dress. But for the Cuban government and for the U.S., which is officially friendly to Batista, it was an embarrassing affair. U.S. officials, with full cooperation from the Cuban army and police, planned to try to send an appeal from the boys' parents into the rebel camp. If that fails, U.S. emissaries may go in under a truce flag and try to talk the young volunteers into coming...