Word: revolting
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...budget proposal headed to a House vote, Bill Clinton fended off assaults in Congress from his own party. Fearing an antitax backlash among voters, moderate and conservative House Democrats demanded more spending cuts, in particular caps on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. Clinton tried to put down the revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma...
...point about the falseness of theater. The play begins outside of the plot, with scripted shouts from ushers and an argument between the supposed director of the show and the actor playing Frank, who's reluctant to "do the show." At the end of the play, this actor finally revolts against the theater, striking the set, shouting at the audience to leave, and explaining "my moment of terror is my moment of theatrical orgasm is my anethesia" while the rest of the crew feigns horror and surprise. Of course, this revolt is scripted. Oppenheimer's paradoxical game is kind...
...allies on Capitol Hill. He is still well liked by some key Democrats on the Judiciary and Intelligence committees, who view him as a forthright man. Congressman Don Edwards of California, a frequent critic of the bureau, calls Sessions the best director ever. But the FBI's internal revolt is well under way. The ethics charges against Sessions have led to intense resentment of a double standard in the tightly disciplined agency, where agents are routinely punished for minor infractions...
...restraint was less apparent in recent years, perhaps because Ashe knew that so much needed to be done in so little time. Referring to the violence that shattered Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, he preferred to call it a "revolt," knowing full well that the word expressed a more powerful image of response to racial repression than the term most commonly used, "riot." On the other hand, he earned the outrage of many black coaches and educators by supporting a proposition that requires minimum standards of academic performance in exchange for athletic eligibility. Many African- American athletes fell...
...Work Jews" held at Treblinka revolt and 50 escape. Five of those will become witnesses against Demjanjuk...