Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed forces under a strong Department of Defense, and 2) the Air Force's strategic-bombing concept, symbolized by the intercontinental B-36, which Radford unhappily termed "a billion-dollar blunder." Such was Radford's quiet but sharp-toothed tenacity as he helped lead the famous "Revolt of the Admirals" (1948-49) that the Army's General Omar Bradley, then chairman of the J.C.S., got away with calling him one of the Navy's "fancy Dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals...
...well as strategic-whereby U.S. power could be strengthened while manpower levels held steady. The inevitable implication of the New Look was a re-emphasis on air-sea power (Air Force, Navy) and de-emphasis of ground power (Army) that led eventually to the Army's ill-fated "Revolt of the Colonels" (TIME, June 4, 1956). "Our New Look prepares for the long pull and not just for a year of crisis," said Radford, soon after the Korean armistice. "The New Look can be supported not just one year, nor two years, but for ten years, or even...
Months of Violence. His mind was obviously on Cuba's current, running-sore revolt. Though the dictator's army is well equipped, it so far has been ineffectual against the kind of "internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost nightly; the explosions often knock down power poles and black out parts of the city. Sugar cane fields are put to the torch with regularity. And in southeastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, a band of wily, determined rebels is getting larger...
...Arcy stated that Existentialism grew up as a revolt against Renaissance rationalism, which gave a steadily diminishing importance to the self. Kierkegaard experienced "a deep sense of loneliness, isolation and absence of purpose" so characteristic of Existentialism...
Since the revolt of East Berlin workers in June 1953, the tendency of the practical Germans has been to avoid open clashes with authority but to press for legal concessions, e.g., shorter working hours, lower prices in the state stores. East Germany's 88,000 students, however, have shown open irritation with the fact that almost one-third of their study time is taken up with Communist indoctrination, Russian language lessons, and "sport and technology," i.e., guerrilla training. At East Berlin's Humboldt University last November, as students gathered on the campus to discuss the Hungarian situation, clandestine...