Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle in Albany for control of the recently elected Democratic legislature was not spontaneous. It did not begin as a revolt of upstate Assemblymen and Senators against their former minority leaders, Joseph Zaretzki and Anthony Travia, both of New York City. During the conflict this was the rhetoric; but at informal caucuses held shortly after the November election the legislators expressed their support of Zaretzki and Travia. In the ensuing months a revolt began, quietly at first and then more loudly in December until on January 4, when the legislature convened, it exploded into an almost successful coup...
...revolt sprang from the ambitions of a number of county leaders eager to limit New York City Mayor Robert Wagner's influence over the Democratic party. These leaders sought to counter Wagner's 1961 victory over the party organization. In addition, all of them (except George Palmer of Schenectady) had been early supporters of Kennedy's entrance into New York politics. They had urged him to run and had worked diligently for his election. Clearly they hoped to protect their renaissance by using the umbrella of his name...
...given Portugal over half a billion dollars in war materials through the NATO alliance. Though the U.S stresses that the arms are for the defence of Europe and are "not to be used in the Portuguese colonies", the rebels have captured Americans weapons in Mozambique since the revolt began in earnest in September...
...fact, he said, South Vietnam is engaged in a civil war which stems from a 25-year-old "peasant revolt against a corrupt and oppressive oligarchy." This revolt, Moore said, has continued throughout the periods of Japanese, French, and American intervention in Southeast Asia...
Sold to the owner of a small plantation, she takes part in a slave revolt and is sold again to a dirt farmer, where she works in the fields all day and lies in the woods all night with a big white buck from a neighboring farm. One night her man attempts to escape from his cruel master and is torn to pieces by Chinese bloodhounds. In despair, the heroine flees by a sort of Underground Railway known as "The Mole's Way." To her astonishment, she discovers that a civil war is raging in China...