Word: revolt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
November 17 marked the third anniversary of the bloody suppression of the student revolt centered around the occupied Polytechnic Institute in Athens. The event was the culmination of a six-year struggle of the people of Greece against a military dictatorship. The anniversary of the uprising was observed with a massive demonstration in the streets of Athens last Tuesday...
CONCORD CAMPUS, HARVARD'S--People may think that Harvard College has always been in Cambridge, but for a single year in the period of colonial unrest and revolt the college moved beyond the city's borders. During the siege of Boston in 1775, more than 1500 revolutionary soldiers were quartered in College buildings, and for the 1775-76 academic year, the College was situated in Concord...
...thousand less ambitious situation comedies. "Nobody feels he has any control, and the only way people participate in governments is by laughing at the candidates," theorizes Hal Goodman, one-half of Johnny Carson's writing team. Adds Larry Klein, the other half: "Laughing is the only form of revolt we have in this country...
...meeting looking pale and angry. He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way. Though it seems hard to imagine, Smith is a moderate by Rhodesian standards, and at Umtali he faced a right-wing revolt led by Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded...
Certainly it was the most dramatic convention since the Republicans in 1952 chose Dwight Eisenhower over Robert Taft; indeed it was one of the most fascinating conventions of this century. As the G.O.P. assembled in Kansas City, a sitting President, albeit appointed as a result of Watergate, was facing revolt from the faithful in his own party. The battle was ideologically murky, for Gerald Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan are both basically conservatives. In the damp Midwestern summer heat, Ford pleaded for support with a steady stream of delegates. He finally won this brawl on the precipice by a painfully...