Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, well-timed action which put down the revolt was carried out by the Royal Marine Commandos with an efficiency that will probably win it a glowing place in British military history. While the barrage went on, helicopters lifted some 60 commandos to a ravine behind the Tanganyika Rifles' barracks about six miles north of the city. As the Tanganyikan soldiers spilled out of their barracks, they were quickly captured from behind by the British troops. One mortar shell broke up the resistance; only three Rifles members were killed; and though several hundred soldiers escaped in the bush...
...Negro revolt of the 1960's, according to Wilkins, was made possible by the foundations the NAACP has laid. "This is a social movement that has been building since 1920," he says. "The eruption happened because of the NAACP. Officers of the NAACP began the first sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina." Has the rise of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee undercut the NAACP's importance in the Movement? "Hell, SNCC's our baby! We raised them! We got 117,000 new members last year, they have only 150. How can you call...
...think the most telling item in your article is that browsing is not permitted in Russian bookstores. Our million-a-year browsers would revolt under such a regime...
...Army Chief General Joseph Mobutu back on duty after a month-long vacation, 700 green-bereted Congolese commandos from Katanga debarked from planes in the Kwilu capital of Kikwit, began un loading guns and ammunition. The troops had their work cut out for them: a spreading, Communist-aided tribal revolt that has turned...
Although less than a year old, the "Negro Revolt" has become a stock phrase in the vocabulary of current events. Spring was stark headlines about Birmingham, summer aerial shots of thousands along the reflecting pool, and fall frustration at the failure of Congress. Now winter may be the time of abstraction and formalization. Even as boycotts and demonstrations continue in North and South, the language of sociologists and slick magazines fits police dogs, marching students, and anguished ministers into the broad context of mid-century America. The subject of countless words, the Negro has become a new caricature, de-humanized...