Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs of rebellion are not surprising, since the welfare burden falls so unevenly and irrationally on various communities and regions. New York City pays a staggering $2.6 billion a year in benefits, while Chicago, with an even higher rate of unemployment, pays only $9 million (the state of Illinois carries most of Chicago's burden). The average payment per case in general welfare assistance early this year ranged from $15.05 a month in Mississippi to $203.34 in Hawaii...
...political dogs, out with the oppressive parasites, out with the sailors, out with the Communists and officers." In June, when 3,000 people on São Miguel Island protested the low prices that farmers were getting for their milk from the mainland, the demonstration turned into a minor rebellion; the rioters seized the radio station and Huberto Delgado Airport and held them for six hours...
...leader of the National Radical Union, told how he had been arrested at machine-gun point by junta soldiers and taken to the monarch in 1967. He urged the King, who was also commander in chief of the armed forces, to order loyal officers to crush the colonels' rebellion. The weak and inexperienced Constantine, then 27, refused, fearing bloodshed. Instead, he swore the colonels into office...
General Lee, whose application for citizenship included a pledge to "faith fully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves," would not have objected...
...remote, how quaint the well-behaved Irish rebellion of Charles Stewart Parnell seems today, with its motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...