Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marauding Mau Mau gangs began darting out of the Aberdare hills to slaughter white farmers and hack their cattle to death, and the government declared a national emergency. It is generally agreed that Mboya played no part in the savage three-year revolt. But he had been an active member of Kenyatta's Kenya African Union...
...Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against the Roman Empire...
...quarts daily), yet produced so little (40% of its supplies are imported), that local dealers boosted prices until they were charging 31? per quart for home-delivered milk, 28? for store-bought. That was too much for Connecticut's housewives. Last week, after a two-year revolt, they won their fight-with a little help from a hustling supermarket. Grade A milk was down to as low as 19? a quart in the stores, and home-delivered milk was down 3? to 28? a quart...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the conscious intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The second installment of the late Sergei Eisenstein's lugubrious but magnificent film chronicle of the reign of the Russian Czar bears little resemblance to the historical figure, is frankly and cunningly intended to represent Stalin...