Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading west from Illinois early last week, Adlai Stevenson had two major objectives-to fire Democratic enthusiasm in California and to undermine the threatening Democratic revolt in Texas. To meet this challenging assignment, the governor sat up night after night, working on his speeches until 2 or 3 in the morning. The result was speeches of a vigor and emotional appeal which Stevenson had seldom achieved before...
...years since passage of the Wagner Act, Pittsburgh and the smoke-curtained western steel counties around it have become a Democratic stronghold. Philadelphia now has a Democratic city administration for the first time since 1884, is still in the emotional throes of revolt against decades of tobacco-stained Republican boss rule, and is awash with independent-minded voters...
Died. General Arturo Rawson, 67, onetime provisional (for 48 hours in 1943) President of Argentina, leader (with General Pedro Ramirez) of the 1943 military revolt against fascist-minded President Ramon Castillo which unexpectedly started Juan Peron on his rise to power, part organizer of the abortive 1945 anti-Peron revolt; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...string of angry little insurrections-some of them with the support of dissidents in the armed forces-flared across Venezuela last week. They were speedily quenched by Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez and his ruling military junta. The timing and dispersion suggested that a projected nationwide revolt had exploded prematurely. The uprisings...
...revolt is short and bitter. Humbly and penitently, she returns. From then on, Hélene is made to suffer for every moment of pleasure. Tamara finally takes her to a Lesbian nightclub and abandons her to the pawings of a frumpy rival...