Word: revolting
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...limit of 25 acres per person on rural land holdings, but many feudal aristocrats had got around the measure by parceling out land to armies of relatives. After court attempts to untangle the land-reform problem failed. Charu Mazumdar, a member of the Marxist group, instigated a peasant revolt in the Naxalbari region of West Bengal. The leaders of Mazumdar's own party, fearful that the peasant revolt would spread, sent in armed police to put down the uprising. At least eleven women and children were killed. "After that," as a Naxalite spokesman said, "nobody could stop the movement...
...long ago, U.S. highway builders simply picked the path of least resistance and let the concrete flow. They favored public parks because such land was cheaper and no relocation of people was needed before the bulldozers went to work. But things are changing fast: a grass-roots revolt is stopping highwaymen from freely paving the land -especially parks...
...revolt has made shambles of the conservative alliance formed by Wiliam F. Buckley early in the 1950's. To form the alliance, Buckley mobilized all potential allies of the conservatives-including the libertarians...
...third path that led directly to the anarchist revolt now shaking the right...
Hence, by August 1969, when Young Americans for Freedom met in St. Louis for their ninth annual convention, libertarian YAFer's were on the verge of revolt. Approximately 300 of the 1200 delegates at the convention were members of a "Libertarian Caucus." From the outset it was apparent to them that the tone of the convention would not be one of libertarianism-of the 12 speakers scheduled, none was libertarian. The Caucus decided to hold a "mini-convention" of its own on the night of the opening ceremonies and invited Karl Hess to speak...