Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beatnikery is out," Mortimer told himself as he paged through a copy of Life. "When Smithies quote Ginsburg instead of Donne, all exclusiveness is lost." We start a quiet little revolt and before we know it, Random House and Time and C.B.S. take it over and build it into a big thing. Even the New Yorker expresses horror...
...kept 500,000 young Frenchmen under arms in Algeria and badly strained the fabric of NATO. The Communist and fascist fringes hurled insults at the President, but the great French middle, both liberal and conservative, overwhelmingly supported and applauded the bold initiative. And the dread specter of right-wing revolt all but vanished even in Algeria itself, where diehard French ultras had warned, on the eve of De Gaulle's statement, that "hundreds of thousands of Europeans and Moslems" would "take to the maquis" if self-determination was offered to Algeria...
...last, airily dismissing a defense counsel's request to be allowed to make a final plea to the court, Mahdawi got down to business, passed death sentences on able Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali and three other Iraqi army officers accused of participating in last March's Mosul revolt against Kassem...
Four days after Tabakchali's conviction came news that he and 18 other Iraqi officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken at last Kassem's faith in Colonel Mahdawi and his court as useful propaganda instruments. The same broadcast that told of Tabakchali's execution announced that Mahdawi had left for a six-week trip to Peking. And after that, reported Baghdad's insiders, he would move...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 20--Nineteen Iraqi Army officers and four civilians were executed today as enemies of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's regime, Baghdad Radio announced. The officers were involved in a revolt at the northern military headquarters of Mosul last March 8 or were accused of plotting against Kassem...