Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some onlookers are inclined to dismiss the current Greek revolt as merely another Balkan flare that will soon fizzle out. This eruption, however, involves every fighting Greek male, and has already provided "room for future generations" by killing and wounding several thousands. The rebellion, moreover, aside from its being the most serious in recent years, has international complications that are unpleasant to behold...
Miami, Fla., Feb. 28--National Guardsmen sped tonight toward lower Matecambe Key where 400 war veterans were is revolt against living conditions on a government relief project...
...with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining wives revolt and expel Taxis, his governesses, his police, and his guns. So the kingdom is again left to live by its simple code of (1) don't offend your neighbor, and (2) otherwise do as you like...
...even to many who cheered, it all seemed rather foolish. First act was in a murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs himself he gasps his own epitaph: ''What a great artist dies...
...foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent to which Germans are willing to tighten their belts without resort to revolt. The Saar plebiscite is not yet over, nor is the question of how Germany will be able to meet her payments to France for the Saar coal mines. But the most serious problem of all, which has recently been disturbingly quiescent, is that of Austrian independence. To ensure this, Foreign Minister...