Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died fortuitously in Moscow, Deputy Premier Mine took ill. In July came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most of all his patriotism, could perhaps win public sympathy and stem the rising tide of revolt. Ailing Gomulka was taken from his cottage and sent to Sochi on the Black Sea for recuperation. But when the Politburo invited him to become party secretary he said: "I do not wish to enter your Politburo. The Politburo I enter will have to be changed entirely...
...Sunday thousands of people went to the cemetery to look through rows of unidentified bodies lying in plain wooden coffins. They were searching for a missing brother or son among the 25,000 dead in Budapest's six weeks of revolt...
...sits in a desperate middle: if Poles are content for now to seek to alleviate rather than to overthrow Communism, it is because, watching Hungary's revolt with anguished sympathy, they see that other nations will not come to their aid, and they know that Russia is far more determined to hold a neighboring Poland than a distant Hungary...
Just before dawn one day last week, the revolt got under way-again in Santiago. Machine gunners, in olive-drab uniforms with black-and-red armbands marked "26 de Julio," fired on police headquarters. At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons. At other towns-Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara-other Castro-men rebelled...
...last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000-man Local 1014 at U.S. Steel's Gary (Ind.) plant, the Steelworkers' biggest unit. Even McDonald's home local 1272 at Jones & Laughlin's southside plant in Pittsburgh passed the protest resolution...