Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
When the Iraqi army killed King Feisal and seized power last July, General Karim Kassem threw his arms around his top lieutenant, Colonel Abdul Salem Mohammed Aref, and called him "my brother in revolt." Others, presumably including Aref himself, decided that the hot-eyed Aref might one day play Nasser to Kassem's Naguib. Last week a prosecutor at one of Baghdad's show trials revealed, almost in passing, that Aref has already been tried and convicted of treason...
...breaking point came early this month. An anonymous middle-aged man raised the standard of revolt, refused to budge when told to get off an Underground train that had come to a dead stop. He shouted: "It says on the front of the train that it is going to Dagenham East!" And, glaring around at his sheeplike fellow passengers, he added: "That is where we are all going, aren...
Ever since Khrushchev's sweeping denunciation of Stalin, Nenni, a 1952 Stalin Peace prizewinner, has been making noises about breaking his 14-year-old alliance with Italy's 2,000,000-strong Communist Party. Nenni condemned the Russian smashing of the Hungarian revolt, and privately he calls the Reds "black beasts." With this in mind, Fanfani designed his semi-Socialist program partly to tempt the Nenni Socialists into part-time support of his government. Alarmed, the right-wing Christian Democratic faction of ex-Premier Guiseppe Pella warned Fanfani that they would leave the party if they were "betrayed...
Pressagentry. Castro showed a natural flair for publicity. Rebel beards, originally grown for lack of shaving gear, gave the revolt a trademark. Astigmatic from birth, Castro was seldom caught with his spectacles on. "A leader does not wear glasses," he said...