Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become noted only for his fast-talking style (he was once clocked at 487 words in one minute) and for a speech titled "Nebraska" that he delivered more than 300 times. Last week, in fact, after the official count of the 1958 election showed that Nebraska's farm revolt had given Brooks 211,424 votes to Anderson's 209,869, Anderson still refused to believe it: he raised the $20,000 necessary for a re-count which, by otherwise general agreement, will end up with Nebraska's still having elected Ralph Brooks as its first Democratic Governor...
...Farm Revolt. But the upset was also a rebuke by farmers and ranchers-who paid welfarism's costs-to the citified beneficiaries in Montevideo (pop. 900,000). The leader of the farm revolt was Benito Nardone, 52, a radio personality with a big rural following. Years ago, Montevideo-born Nardone, stevedore, union organizer, newsman and backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their...
...Hatful of Rain once again garishly grim. His scene, shifting between a crummy, dimly lit bar and a sleazy apartment, fits the play's characters with their inner loneliness, outer violence, anarchic dreams. Into the bar, on her wedding eve, comes a beautiful girl (Janice Rule) in prenuptial revolt against a stodgy suburban future; next day she returns, in her wedding dress, to go off with a hard-boiled sailor (well played by Ben Gazzara). The rest of the play concerns the unborn child of the fiance she walked out on, the father she drives to death...
CREDIT CARD REVOLT is growing among restaurateurs, who protest clubs' 7% fees. Seattle eating places are adding 5% to bills charged on credit cards. Idea has been adopted by Wisconsin's restaurant association; similar moves are afoot in San Francisco, Manhattan, Baltimore...
...plan, no itinerary. He visits Helen of Troy and her husband Menelaus in Sparta. Helen is still beautiful, but the King has become a fat and greedy landlord whose subjects are on the edge of revolt. Helen and Odysseus are, up to a point, two of a kind. When he suggests that they run off, she agrees, and they slip away to Crete. There the King is old and sterile; there, too, the people talk revolution and the blond barbarians from the north are muscling in. The old King marries Helen, and Odysseus, after adventures of fierce brutality, leaves Crete...