Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...
Trouble had already started inside Tibet. There was open revolt and bloodshed. It spread from village to village. While I was in India, some of my officials advised me to remain and take care of the freedom movement from India. Another group, including Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, advised me to return. He said it was better to struggle from within Tibet...
...transitions to democracy in Latin America, East Asia and the communist world, have all entailed negotiations with former adversaries, a give and take that could not be farther from Che's unyielding demand for confrontation to the death. Even someone like Subcomandante Marcos, the spokesman for the Chiapas Maya revolt, whose charisma and moral stance remind us of Che's, does not espouse his hero's economic or military theories...
...time when old religious rituals are being embraced anew by many faiths, Muskett is part of a retro-revolt among U.S. Catholics. The generation that not long ago pushed Gregorian chant into the Top 40 may now plant it back into the Mass. Since 1990, the number of U.S. Catholic dioceses allowing traditional Masses (in Latin or a mix of English and Latin) has leaped from six to 131--70% of the total. More than 150,000 people attend them each week...
...Nevada, Oregon and Washington--have voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, federal law still requires them to prosecute any wheelchair-bound granny smoking a bong. But they aren't doing so, and that has federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey muttering about a new "Whiskey Rebellion," the unsuccessful 1794 farmer's revolt against federal liquor taxes...