Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work out a solid concept of what the armed forces were supposed to do in defense of the U.S., and then cut away the nonessentials. In the absence of this concept, the Budget Bureau was literally running military policy. This in turn provoked shameful interservice brawling like the 1949 "Revolt...
...tuition to pupils in cities and counties that had closed the public schools rather than desegregate, and 2) pay the tuition of any pupil who wishes to attend a private school in cities and counties that have desegregated. But mild or not, the action was in every way a revolt, an overwhelming sign that Southerners are thoroughly aroused against a decision they think violates their rights...
...undergraduate liberal tendencies of Rev. William H. Melish '31 prefaced a feud with the Episcopal Church which flared into open revolt last Sunday. Melish openly defied his Bishop by conducting two services in The Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn after he had been officially ousted...
...speaker from Lancaster ripped into the Minister of Education. Sir David Eccles, said the speaker, "has achieved the impossible. Alone and unaided and with consummate skill and genius, he has driven the meekest, mildest, most long-suffering body of men and women in the Western Hemisphere to revolt." The men and women in question were the schoolteachers of Britain. Their mood had never been more surly...
...type of industrialist rise to prominence in 1955-the empire builder who put together his kingdom by buying stock to take over sickly or tired companies. To some, they were mere "raiders," who might often liquidate a company for its cash. But the raiders regarded themselves as leading a revolt of the stockholders. Right or wrong, they put the pressure on industry's managers to produce or get out. In the proxy war of the year, Financier Louis Wolf son (Washington's Capital Transit, New York Shipbuilding, etc.) fought a losing battle to take over Montgomery Ward...