Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
...figure among the miners. He made up with Mudarra grudgingly, killed a police spy who had unmasked his friend. But he learned that forgiveness of Lucia came slowly, vanished many times in the course of a marriage, did not understand his own love for her until after the Asturian revolt had been defeated, Moorish troops had entered the country and he and Lucia had escaped across the mountains toward their homeland...
...State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention: "It means a lot of money, but damn few votes...
Into Canton, lately the centre of a tricky revolt against Nanking which cloaked itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese...
...last week NYA had managed to arouse a full-sized revolt among its beneficiaries. In Cleveland fortnight ago the American Youth Congress, annual sounding board for liberal-minded youngsters, demanded more money, more say-so in spending it, loudly cheered a speaker who cried: "NYA has the possibilities of a political football. . . . We seek not doles but economic rights! We seek relief administered democratically rather than by Presidential fiat...