Word: revolted
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...black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban revolt on his hands...
...domestic transgressions, the commission reportedly absolved the agency of much blame, noting that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon drove the CIA to overstep its bounds. Johnson had an obsessive belief that foreign money and influence must have been behind the students' revolt and the antiwar movement. Nixon also prodded the CIA to misuse its powers and spy on dissenters. The commission called for tighter controls on White House access to the agency and tighter congressional oversight of its operations...
DuBois entered the Boylston prize-speaking contest in 1890 "because I needed the money" and came away with second prize. His friend Clement Morgan, also black, won first prize, and DuBois helped organize a small revolt in his class to elect Morgan Class Day speaker, breaking an unwritten rule which had traditionally reserved this distinction for students from fashionable Back...
...reason the ship stayed in Luanda so long was a dockworkers' strike and slowdown, a final revolt against the coerced labor Angola has exploited for hundreds of years. When slavery was finally abolsished in the 1870's, it was replaced with a labor code which allowed the government to force anyone who did not have a steady job--always Africans--to sign a six-month contract with employers who had asked the government for workers. Village life was destroyed since men weren't there for six months out of the year and were often shipped to other parts of Angola...
...help, and his investigation takes him to Paris at the time of the 1968 student rebellion. Textures are well observed: the roughness of Kurdish mountain men, the slithery politesse of European moneymen. There is a convincing smell of burnt insulation; it is clear that neither the French students' revolt nor that of the Kurds ever had the slightest chance of success...