Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused (for health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate liberals (TIME. Jan. 12) lined up behind Kentucky's courtly John Sherman Cooper...
...HUNGARIAN REVOLT was instigated by "American agents," and Russia was actually invited in to mash it by the Hungarians themselves...
...Gaulle, France would surely have been in for a vicious round of strikes, profiteering and social unrest. De Gaulle himself, despite his prestige, probably could not have dared subject them to parliamentary debate. As it was, the prevailing French response seemed to be one of pained resignation rather than revolt. In France's mood of renewed national pride, and of reluctant awareness of peril, Paris' Le Monde pointed the moral: "There is no reform without effort and no recovery without sacrifice...
What Will Jacques Do? The question that most piqued Parisian curiosity at week's end was what would happen to Jacques Soustelle, the fiery "wrecker of Cabinets" who masterminded the revolt that led to De Gaulle's return to power. Ambitious Jacques Soustelle clearly felt he deserved one of the senior Cabinet posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried...
CUBA'S latest revolution was plotted in gunrunning missions off the Florida coast, in elegant Havana yacht clubs, in the man-trying mountains of eastern Cuba, and in the hushed offices of leading Havana lawyers. The men who made the revolt shared a common hatred of Strongman Batista, but had notably varied backgrounds...