Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...provoked Frenchmen to fury, his proffered olive branch very nearly toppled the government of Premier Felix Gaillard. Trouble was that along with the olive branch came news that Bourguiba would still not agree to France's scheme for "neutral control'' of the border between Tunisia and revolt-torn Algeria, still insisted that France publicly concede that "in principle" Tunisia has sovereignty over Bizerte. Stirred to their chauvinistic depths. France's right-wing Independents, a vital element in Premier Gaillard's rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only...
Less than seven weeks after he restored personal freedoms in Cuba, President Fulgencio Batista snatched them back again. Last week the eighth suspension of constitutional guarantees since Fidel Castro began his revolt 15 months ago renewed for 45 days the government's power to censor the press, disperse public meetings, raid homes without warrants, jail citizens without charges...
...Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...
...Wyszynski goads the administration; in Hungary Cardinal Mindszenty hides in the American legation. The Hungarian writers who inspired and helped lead the revolution seldom dare to write even sly gibes (though they regularly and stubbornly send delegations to demand the release of Novelist Tibor Dery, intellectual leader of the revolt...