Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America's biggest nation last week, the people in uniform performed a political revolution to match the military uprising that toppled Leftist President Joao ("Jango") Goulart. It was a revolt against Communism and confusion, against demagoguery, corruption, ruinous economic drift and national hopelessness. In a grim and solemn mood, the military announced that it was assuming unprecedented powers and taking over much of the responsibility of government for the remainder of Goulart's term...
...four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have a deep social conscience about the problems that dog Brazil. Much of his career was spent in the poverty-stricken, drought-devastated northeast. He was not one of the first plotters of the revolt, and thought long and hard before lending his weight to it. "We have toppled a government of the extreme left," Castello Branco said after his election. "We will not form a government of the extreme right...
...this strategy is bankrupt. Wallace received disturbingly heavy support from Milwaukee's workers; the trade-unionists of Gary will probably behave similarly in the Indiana primary. Furthermore, white suburbanites, both the very rich and those on the lip of Milwaukee's industrial area, gave Wallace many votes. The white revolt has materialized, dashing liberal hopes for a "crisis of conscience" or an interracial alliance of the urban lower classes...
Barry Goldwater, of course, is the Republican candidate who could capitalize most from a white revolt; he is even on record against the civil rights bill. But any Republican stands to gain. Whether the Presidential candidate does so or not depends less on his statements and the Republican platform than on the politicians and professional bigots on the ward and precinct level--like the candidates for Milwaukee County supervisor. There they can appeal to the fears and fears and prejudices that are almost never discussed in national and state campaigns...
...then sold them to another slaver. If the slave balked, Murrell killed him. At one point, Murrell spent a year in jail for horse stealing, where he was branded, whipped and pilloried. He came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property, than any other robber who has ever lived in America...