Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott and trusted staff officers drew up operations plans for dealing with a revolt by i) civilians, 2) the air force, 3) the navy, or 4) the air force and navy together. Eight men alone knew of the existence of these plans, kept in four sealed envelopes in a locked desk drawer in the War Ministry...
...clock: Baba Yaga chases Hugh McLean across the tundra up to the Decembrist revolt or thereabouts. The speedy trip is accomplished in Sever 31, and is called Slavic 149. Downstairs before lunch Faust and Mephistopheles will inhabit Sever 1 as Professor Atkins offers his biennial course on the Faust legend. German is required, but the reading list is not too long...
...grab-bag M.N.R., called Fascist until it seized power in a revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the M.N.R., in convention, chose another moderate, Vice President Hernan Siles Zuazo, as the party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. Then, as the convention went on, Guevara and Lechin began trading verbal blows from the floor...
...excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes off to join the workers' revolt...
...Condition Intolerable. In Alabama, the Montgomery Advertiser called the Virginia vote a "thunderous revolt." In the Birmingham Post-Herald, Columnist John Temple Graves went into historical ecstasies. "Virginia," said he, "with names for every chapter of American history . . . Virginia, where America's history and philosophy were born . . . Surely this stern and determined gesture from the South gives pause to those who would impose on our people a condition intolerable to them and unknown to the Constitution...