Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film takes Martin Luther from his doubt-filled student days through the whole dramatic flowering of Protestantism. There are notable soft-pedalings; the Peasants' Revolt (1524-26) seems to be telescoped with the iconoclastic excesses of one of Luther's too enthusiastic followers, and the rallying of the German princes to Luther's side is tricked out in more Christian idealism than most historians give the princes credit for. But by & large, the action and the dialogue, drawn mostly from Luther's own written words, are both accurate and edifying...
When a nervous regime slaps a rigid censorship on the press, as Fulgencio Batista's government did after July's unsuccessful revolt (TIME, Aug. 10), the normal flow of news slackens and nightmare rumors fly ten times faster. One day last month Batista's propaganda ministry announced cryptically that Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana and Roman Catholic primate of Cuba, had been injured in a fall in his rooms. That was news that Havana's papers and radio stations would normally have reported in detail, but under censorship they gave only the bare bones...
Melliyun-I-Iran, a clandestine nationalist gang plotting with German secret agents to foment revolt against the Allied occupiers. On the side, Zahedi was making a tidy profit by commandeering the region's wheat stocks and holding on until starving Iranians forked over a top price...
...make the best of it, Ryan implied that suspension was merely a legal device to give him more time. "If the council wanted me out," said he, "it would have said so." But Meany made it obvious to reporters that he hoped suspension would bring on an I.L.A. revolt that would both depose Ryan and keep the union within the A.F.L. Asked whether he thought the I.L.A.'s present leaders could do an effective cleanup job, Meany gave an unequivocal answer...
Batista suspended all constitutional rights for 90 days, slapped a censorship on press and radio, and started a round-up of oppositionists. He also alerted the air force and navy against a sea invasion. Next day, in a television show from Camp Columbia outside Havana, he announced that the revolt was over. But no one in Cuba doubted that others would follow...