Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CREDIT-CARD REVOLT against 7% commission paid to credit organizations will be led by National Restaurant Association. Members protest that commissions are forcing price rises that hurt business. Restaurant Association is considering issuing own credit cards, charging members only 3½% commission...
...make the tools and dies needed for a new car, the designer must decide what the public is going to want nearly two years before the car actually comes out. For this reason designers often get caught with their plans down; there was little they could do about the revolt against chrome-and the demand for a small car. Last week General Motors and Ford were experimenting with a radical new electronic machine to make dies that would drastically cut the lead time, make it possible to turn out dies in as short a time as six months...
Republican hopes that the farm revolt had been pacified were not realized. The Democrats picked up Congressional seats along the entire length of the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys...
...Marlon. "The beats think Brando's a slob," he cried. Not so, retorted a denizen of the Co-Existence Bagel Shop. "He comes up here and pals on weekends. Makes the parties. He represents us in regions where we can't go. We're in revolt against modern society, and Brando fights our fight for us in the middle of all that Hollywood junk...
Hardly aware of it herself, she is deeply resentful of her submissive role. It is not until she begins to keep a secret diary that resentment turns to revolt, for as Valeria looks at herself, she also begins to see others. She discovers her husband's failure as man and lover, her son's weakness. She secretly despises her son's pretty and docile fiancee, is candid enough to guess that she is actually jealous of her independent daughter. As life at home becomes unbearable, Valeria's office job begins to seem like a kindly refuge...