Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farther, meet Zhukov face to face; such a meeting would "weigh heavily in the President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United Nations resolution condemning Soviet brutality in Hungary, might unduly alarm U.S. allies fearful of bilateral U.S.-Soviet negotiations...
...apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction that the government's policy "had no sanction in the New Testament and was diametrically opposed...
...these events there was room for genuine ideological difference. Was not the process of destalinization, crudely set off by Khrushchev, proceeding too quickly? Had not Khrushchev's rough peasant hand, thrust into the delicate balance between independent Yugoslavia and the dependent satellites, been a contributing factor in the revolt? Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich got their chance to rally allies in an attack on Khrushchev at the December plenum of the Central Committee and thus delay their own fate. The ostensible issue in the plenum was a party plan, pushed by Khrushchev, for decentralizing Soviet industry (a plan which decreases...
President Coty apparently feared a changing mood in France, a growing weariness of the cost and futility of its Algerian effort, and sought to arrest that mood. At the moment, the government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury is operating on the dubious premise that the revolt can be "pacified," after which Algerian nationalists will get political benefits. But the deadline to this sort of postponement is the September U.N. session, when the Arab-Asian bloc can be expected to raise the Algerian question again. The French government is currently studying a project to offer Algeria a loi cadre (a "skeleton...
...populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history it was only a day: the monuments to the might of Assur-nasir-pal II fell before a Babylonian revolt, a Median invasion, and the scouring sands of the desert...