Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murdered a pro-Soviet Jewish orchestra conductor named Simon Kaspe. The Manchukuo Supreme Court presently reviewed their case and, according to the Moscow Pravda's passionate account last week, had before it the evidence of Harbin Police Chief Yeguchi who testified: "These men are Russian patriots preparing a revolt on Soviet territory." Even the prosecutor, according to Pravda, tacitly admitted that "the crime had a political background...
...from Mary when Rudolph wanted to leave the corrupt court and marry her. He guesses that Rudolph was approached by Hungarian separatists at this critical time and accepted a proposal that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit. On top of this sudden conversion to political atheism, Rudolph loses faith in Mary and there...
When Nicholas I became Tsar, Pushkin's tireless hopes rose again. Unluckily for him, the Decembrist Revolt numbered many of his good friends, all of whom seemed to have subversive Pushkin poems among their papers. Though not directly implicated in the conspiracy, Pushkin was again under suspicion. He was allowed to lay his case before the Tsar. After an hour-long interview Pushkin emerged, seething with loyalty. He was free to go anywhere in Russia, except St. Petersburg...
When the Head overreached himself by abolishing the school's most cherished holiday, it was all Mr. Donkin could do to control his muttering minions. It was more than he could do when his feminine wards took a hand in the revolt. Triumphantly the Head proclaimed a check mate; sadly Mr. Donkin acknowledged it. prepared to quit the field like a man. At the last moment, by literary chicanery worthy of P. G. Wodehouse, the day was saved for everyone concerned...
...there are doctors (157,000), and many more people need doctors than lawyers. The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of la wing in the country. To make its point, the Journal printed a letter from a young lawyer who went rustic after three long discouraging years in Manhattan...