Word: revolted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republicans are divided on the budget. Again and again, Johnson gleefully pointed to such specimens of Republican budgetary schizophrenia as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's famed "hair-curling" warning and the businessmen's revolt on the budget...
...realize the dangers involved," he said, "[but if the U.S. rejects the Poles], we will either be forcing a suffering nation into a fruitless revolt or we will be forcing the Polish government to again become hopelessly dependent on Moscow. If we fail to help the Poles, who else in Germany, Czechoslovakia, or anywhere else behind the Iron Curtain will dare stand up to the Russians and look westward...
More than anything else, Mao seemed to be driving home to his bureaucracy the fact that the kind of discontent that had led to riot and revolt in Eastern Europe was beginning to appear in China. In the factories of Kwangtung province alone, admitted the Communist New China News Agency last week, there have been 13 strikes in the past year. Worse yet, in the same period nearly 118,000 Kwangtung peasants and their families walked off state collective farms and, despite all the regime's effort, more than 16,000 of them had stubbornly refused to go back...
Varallyay also participated in the abortive revolt, helping to organize the citizenry, and later aiding in the fighting against the Russians. He escaped across the border on Nov. 14, after the head of his dormitory, who had been captured and later released, telephoned to his charges, advising them to leave the country...
...noisy attack makes it seem wider than it is. "Some Republicans," says conservative Columnist David Lawrence, "mistakenly assume the wave of criticism is a tide, and instead of battling it, they swim with its political currents." By taking the necessary political measures, Dwight Eisenhower can place the Old Guard revolt in its proper light. Only then can the Republican Party present to the voters its strongest argument for election: the Eisenhower record as a national leader...