Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Pennsylvania decided late last week that its football team would look awfully silly doing weekly solos on television. So the Quakers folded back into the fold (the National Collegiate Athletic Association), ended their six-week revolt against the new N.C.A.A. television program, and were restored to good (?) standing...
July seems to be the month for violence in Guatemala. In that month of 1949, the assassination of Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces, sparked a brief, bloody revolt against the left-wing government of President Juan Jose Arevalo. The following July, anti-Arevalo demonstrations in Guatemala City touched off another uprising. Last week again, there were gunfire and bloodshed in the streets of the capital...
Chou quickly warmed to Communism's climate. After a year in Moscow, he returned in 1929 to join forces with China's new Red boss, Li Lisan, an old friend of his Paris days. Chou strung along with his strategy of armed revolt by city workers, but when Moscow switched to Mao's strategy of organizing a peasant army, Chou managed to switch, too. Chou went to work teaching the new army the political tricks he had long ago taught the Nationalists in Whampoa...
Penn's revolt, particularly if such heavyweights as Notre Dame and Army should jump on the bandwagon, seemed calculated to wreck the whole N.C.A.A. effort to work out a TV compromise. But the N.C.A.A. cracked down fast. It declared that Penn is "a member not in good standing," hence subject to expulsion (by a two-thirds vote) at the next N.C.A.A. convention in January...
...officials a few days before (TIME, May 28), and were ready with a barrage of questions. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk had said that Chiang Kaishek, and not the Communists, was the authentic representative of China's millions; Rusk also hinted that the U.S. stood ready to help any revolt against China's "foreign masters." State's Republican Consultant (with rank of ambassador) John Foster Dulles had added: "The Mao Tse-tung regime is a puppet regime . . . It is imperative that we move quickly." Did these speeches, as they clearly seemed to indicate, represent a switch...