Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steep decline began in 1954, when a syndicate headed by Financier Patrick B. McGinnis won control of the line. McGinnis promptly cut service and maintenance, issued truculent public statements to commuters, who protested (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). McGinnis was finally forced out after a bitter commuters' revolt, and into his place stepped quiet, fiddle-playing Lawyer George Alpert -who differs from McGinnis in being more polite...
...fact, the last word-Adenauer's word-had been spoken while Erhard was still over the Atlantic. The returning minister might have sensed it by the conspicuous absence among the crowds at the airport of any welcoming delegation from his Christian Democratic colleagues who had earlier muttered revolt against the Chancellor's highhandedness. For 48 hours it had seemed possible that this rebellious parliamentary spirit and the clamor of the press might become a force big enough to oust the 83-year-old Chancellor, clearing the way for Erhard...
...eyes were on Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, who led an abortive revolt against Parliament in 1952, might do so again. Hardworking, anti-Communist General Nasution proclaimed a ban on all political activity "until further notice," and, to protect the boss, ordered that no newspaper be allowed to publish pictures showing Sukarno kissing anyone, since public kissing is offensive to many Moslems...
...Nicaraguan rebels launched an airborne revolt against a heritage of dictatorship...
...fight them. West Pointer Tachito has a 4,000-man army, with Garands. Thompson submachine guns, .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars. For Central America his air force is impressive: 20-odd P-51s. Tracking his troops on an Esso map last week, Tachito disdainfully dismissed the revolt as a "flop.'' For his part, Luis put Nicaragua under a state of siege and pressured the Organization of American States into a reluctant, long-distance study of the uprising...