Word: revolted
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...Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...Street Journal reporter, does give us in this book is a richly reported recent history of Wall Street and corporate America told through an oversize personality. Weill is a gregarious man with a blowtorch temper and a need to be loved. And he is a window on the shareholder revolt against corporate bloat that raged through the 1980s...
...Basra. But their commanders have indicated that they plan to avoid fighting street by street for control of this city, planning to enter only once they'll be welcomed in. That possibility is not as outlandish as it may sound - Basra was the epicenter of the bloody Shiite revolt against Saddam in 1991, and coalition commanders have reason to suspect that Saddam's control of the city may once again be broken by an internal uprising. Images of coalition forces being welcomed by cheering crowds would certainly help the Bush administration silence critics of the war, but entering the city...
...early October 2000, just before Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in a bloodless popular revolt, the leader of that movement, Zoran Djindjic, placed a call to one of the most feared men in Serbia: Milorad Lukovic, known to his friends as Legija, or the Legionnaire. Djindjic knew that Lukovic, a square-jawed former paramilitary who was commander of the élite Serbian police unit called the Red Berets, could have crushed the uprising that ousted Milosevic. Djindjic wanted assurances that he would not. But he recognized the risk he was taking by even agreeing to meet Lukovic. "If Milosevic wanted...
...image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta's brutal crushing of a student revolt on Nov. 17, 1973 gave the group its name. The non-jury trial is expected to last up to five months; 11 of the accused face life sentences. - By Anthee Carassava/Athens...