Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food was the most frequent cause of revolt in those days, however. Commons fare was austere, and the diners hardly got an egg in their beer. As a matter of fact, one morning they even had a tartar emetic in their coffee, thanks to the famous efforts of two chem students...
Before 1936, the South did not have to resort to the threat of revolt. Its interest was protected by the rule requiring two-thirds of the delegates to nominate a candidate for President. When Roosevelt ended the two-thirds rule, he opened the way to the Southern revolt of 1948 and the muffled Southern revolt...
...nine of them still ruled by local nabobs under British "protection"), Chinese citizenship is strictly limited. Hoping to lessen this discrimination, the British in 1946 set out to organize the country into a Malayan Union. But the old Malay hierarchies, fearing that the Chinese might outvote them, threatened to revolt. The British compromised on a Federation of Autonomous States in which the Chinese still did not have a franchise...
...fighters and fighter-bombers, and to concentrate on building up its Sunday punch, the big-bomber Strategic Command. The squeeze also nipped the Navy's plans for building a 65,000-ton supercarrier, which it hoped would put naval aviation into the strategic bombing business. In 1949 the "revolt of the admirals" broke out, a no-holds-barred attack on the Air Force and its 6-36 which developed-on all sides-into the blackest chapter of modern U.S. military history. In the brawling, Hoyt Vandenberg kept his voice low. In his testimony to a congressional committee, he doggedly...
...company wins, unrestricted corporate gifts probably would increase because corporations' fears of a stockholder revolt against such giving would be minimized...