Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist supported Hukbalahap revolt in central Luzon is gaining popular following among the large landless agricultural class. Government controls designed to stop growing inflation have only hindered the progress of business. The treasury is empty, school teachers go unpaid, and large construction projects are at a standstill...
...Islands' government is in trouble. Inflation, resulting from unwise spending of American payments, has reduced the real income of rural and urban workers. They are becoming restive. As the Hukbalahap revolt became stronger, sudden military expenses drained the treasury...
...political; it was the largest jail break in Puerto Rican history. On Monday, an armed insurrection broke out in cities and towns all over the island, and by nightfall many towns were in rebel hands. But when the government reinforced its troops with tanks and planes on Tuesday, the revolt faded quickly, and by Tuesday night there was relative peace...
...Alabama, retired Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, the man who touched off the Navy's revolt against unification, was running as an independent against Administration-stalwart Senator Lister Hill, and doing his best to blast the Truman Administration clean out of the water. He was conceded the votes of some diehard States' Righters, but no chance...
...Clifford Odets' last play, "The Big Knife," his hero says, "If you've got a message, call Western Union." Surprising as these words might be from the Odets pen, his latest play follows this advice; gone is the revolt against society which marked "Awake and Sing," "Waiting for lefty," and the rest; gone are the bitter characters who would shout out, "Life is written on a dollar bill." In their places we have conflict between individuals and other individuals, between an individual and himself...