Word: rebellion
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...frogskins drifted up from a row of concrete tanks. Ohio-born Major William Morgan, 32, kept 120 workers hopping by barking over short-wave radio such orders as: "Slaughter 10,000 more bulls!" Morgan, the highest ranking of the Americans who served with Fidel Castro in Castro's rebellion, is carving out a new career supplying U.S. restaurants with frogs' legs...
...Creeft arrived as a student in Paris in 1905, only Rodin was turning out anything but the academic nudes and busts that dominated the galleries. Though he lived in the same building with Picasso and Juan Gris, De Creeft himself was at first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly forgotten art of carving wood...
...years ago, at the height of Indonesia's abortive rebellion, a black B-26 bomber roared over the port of Amboina, dropped its bombs before it was hit by antiaircraft fire. Out popped the pilot, a 31-year-old Floridian named Allen Lawrence Pope. His parachute fouled in a palm tree and he lay helpless with a broken thigh until Indonesian troops found and arrested...
...issued by Barnard's able President Millicent McIntosh, requesting the students to wear skirts in classes and on the campus. The shorts contingent, a leggy minority, promptly got up an angry petition, attended a student assembly in abbreviated attire. But if they planned on pushing their long-stemmed rebellion much farther, they could count on a formidable adversary in Millicent McIntosh, 61, mother of five grown children, a niece of fiery Archfeminist M. (for Marry) Carey Thomas, who was Bryn Mawr's second president. Said Barnard's McIntosh, holding on to her generally good-humored state...
...party meetings at the Anatolian cities of Kayseri and Yesilhisar, the government ordered army units to block his way. Last week Menderes' government proposed a parliamentary inquiry into the Republican Party's "subversive, illegitimate and illegal activities." The bill listed "charges" that the party was stirring up rebellion among the people, trying to involve the army in politics...