Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such choices, Schlesinger reads a "revolt of the low-level professional within the party organization against the New Deal and post-New Deal leadership . . . Anti-eggheadism is certainly part of the story. Another part of the story is an anti-Ivy League feeling which has been rankling for many years in the murky lower depths of the Democratic Party in the Northeast...
...Premier to dare even to appear in Madagascar in the past decade. The island's 5,000,000 inhabitants (who are divided into 20 distinct ethnic groups, but go by the collective name of "Malagasy") have not forgotten the savagery with which French troops put down the Madagascar revolt of 1947.* The political choice that De Gaulle offered Madagascar and the territories of French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa was 1) self-government within a federation (with foreign affairs, defense and economic policy reserved to France), or 2) independence without further economic help from France. In a speech...
...Unmet Plane. After the colorful crowds in Negro Africa, De Gaulle flew on to revolt-torn Algeria. This time, in contrast to De Gaulle's two previous visits to Algiers, the right-wing European leaders made no effort to turn out a welcome for the general, and the Committee of Public Safety, which masterminded the Algiers insurrection of last May, pointedly failed to turn out to meet De Gaulle's plane...
Over Cuba's revolt-riddled Oriente province one night last week, an Aero Commander two-engine plane outran a pursuing government DC-3. Then, its gas gone, the plane tried to glide into the nearby U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and nosed into the nearby bay. Watchers at the base's radar screen saw it vanish-another mystery of the cloak-and-dagger Cuban civil...
When one reads of the inhuman and needless carnage of the Iraq revolt, one wonders if the teeming masses of the Arab countries are capable of, or indeed have a right to, self-determination...