Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
...years Dictator Francisco Franco's most powerful weapon in preventing revolt was the memory of the 1936-39 civil war in which a million Spaniards were killed-twice as many as in the American Civil War. Spaniards might be plagued by inflation, corruption, heavy-handed authority and inefficiency; they were willing to accept almost anything rather than more bloodshed...
...weeks ago, at an Albanian banquet in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev made it plain that he wants Hoxha to fire off no more blasts at Tito. This was Khrushchev's way of indicating that he was prepared to resume the friendship with Tito that was interrupted by the revolt in Hungary...
...settle some old scores. Twice exiled for anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...hands the old school tie has become a garrote for genteel traditions. Moral and political neutralists, they expend their limited energies avoiding social commitments. As writers, they have taken fhe drawing-room comedy and turned it into kitchen-sink satire. As a new social breed, they have spearheaded the revolt of the Non-U's (for Non-Upper Class), a petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that...