Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last July when Egypt's Naguib led a revolt against his government's corruption, Lebanese wondered whether their country was not ripe for similar treatment. Two weeks ago 'Premier Sami el Solh turned on his boss in the most violent speech ever heard in the Chamber, then quit...
Trouble comes in 1536 when Aske, beloved by all the Yorkshire commoners for his mettle as a man, is lifted up against his will as leader of a revolt against Henry VIII. In the end, he is undone and hanged in chains...
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...Texas' richest private agricultural empires, the John H. Shary Enterprises, built up by his father-in-law, Shivers is a natural spokesman of anti-Truman Texas farmers and cattlemen, but he has squirmed uneasily at the possibility that he might have to lead his party in actual revolt against the national ticket. To stiffen Shivers' backbone. South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes took him under his wing last year, arranged Shivers' election as chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference...
...vote for Stevenson in November, Texans poured letters in on him at the rate of 1,000 a day, backed him up by an 8-1 margin. Attorney General Price Daniel, now running for the U.S. senatorial seat to be vacated by Tom Connally, also joined the revolt...