Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rollcall of Revolt. Last week, at 50, Stalin Prizewinner Ting Ling and Chen Chi-hsia, another eminent Chinese writer, found themselves under savage attack by the Union of Chinese Writers on charges of "rightist conspiracy" to establish a Western-style democratic system in China...
...first months after the Hungarian revolt, the Communists arrested everyone they could find who had raised his hand during Budapest's Five Days of Freedom. The jails were filled with young people. But recently the pattern of arrests has shown a new trend. Obviously nettled by the United Nations report on Hungary describing the uprising as a spontaneous revolt of an entire people (TIME, July 1), the Communists are now setting out to document their own line-that the revolt was made by fascists, reactionary landowners and followers of Admiral Nicholas Horthy's pro-Nazi regime...
...creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners. The good classic figures could expect soon to be propped up before kangaroo courts to establish the legend of the fascist revolt...
...once portentous and embarrassed: for the second time in a year British armed forces were on the shooting move in the Middle East. At the request of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, he said. British forces were being called upon to help put down a revolt in the desert...
Barrel-chested, walrus-mustached K.I. Singh, 54, onetime Indian army clerk and practicing homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield...