Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the 1945-46 revolt of the admirals over unification of the services, Eisenhower (for unification) and Radford (against) were bitter foes, but Eisenhower has since come to admire and trust Radford's clear thinking and professional ability. A strong second contender for chairman: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 61, the Air Force's first chief of staff, a shrewd strategist, who would have to come out of retirement to take...
After Premier Shigeru Yoshida's fourth cabinet was overthrown by a revolt within his own party (TiME, March 23), his exultant opponents predicted that the long reign of "the Fox" was at last over. But Japan's voters, who went to the polls this week, proved that their 74-year-old Premier is far from politically dead. In Japan's second election in its first year of full independence, Yoshida's conservative, pro-American Liberal Party won 199 of the 466 seats in the Lower Chamber of the Diet. Yoshida did not get an absolute majority...
...three years as a student, Molotov boned up on the techniques of violence. He was soon a certified expert: organizer of the underground in St. Petersburg's high schools, and author of proclamations that clamored for class revolt. By the time he was 27, Papa Skriabin's boy had been jailed six times, exiled twice. His name was so well known to the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, that he changed it to Akim Prostota, which means roughly "Simple Sam." But the comrades called, him Molotov-a derivative of molot, a hammer...
...Christ saw on the cross that man, as he is, is always in revolt against God . . . But, while man's nature rages, God's Plan and God's Truth stand secure-as the stars in heaven stand above the earth. The notion that the age of Jesus of Nazareth has come to an end, and that now new truths will prevail, is a delusion. Truth is not tied to time. Jesus is the truth for all time...
There were moments of muttering that almost came to open revolt. Once Gianella herself was so upset that she flounced to the back of the podium where she had propped up a doll named Victor, and told Victor: "Bambini! Tutti bambini! [Children! They're all children!]." But by the end of the rehearsal, most of the orchestra was won over. "She was right every time she pulled us up," said a violinist. "She's a genius," said a cellist...