Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal Parliament. Then Feisal as chief of state will ask somebody to put together a new Arab federation Cabinet. The new Premier will almost certainly be Nuri Pasha himself, or else someone agreeable to the man who fought in the original World War I Arab nationalist "desert revolt" against the Turks, has 14 times been Iraq's Premier, and its strongman for the last generation...
Nobody can explain just how the operas of Giuseppe Verdi became an "electrical communication with the spirit of the time." The idea "just grew"-to the point where Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...
...recession can be traced very largely to a revolt of the FIGs (Fixed Income Groups) against the wage-price spiral. If this spiral is not stopped, the FIGs will, in the end, be starved out of existence...
Romantic Movement. By missing Vice Admiral Ruben Piedrahita, the fifth man in the junta, the rebels made the fatal mistake in their comedy-of-errors revolt. A little after 3 a.m., Piedrahita got a phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...
...They had expected that Washington would cripple Djakarta by freezing all Indonesian funds in the U.S. until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been too confident that Sukarno's creaky government could...