Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle ages, Eleanor married two kings and was the mother of two more. Cultured, spirited, and ambitious, she was an amazon on the Second Crusade, a lover at the Court of Poitiers, and a ruler ("by the wrath of God" as she put it) in her old age. Intellectual revolt, crusades, and struggle between church and state, marked the twelfth century, and Eleanor managed to have something to do with all of them. Miss Kelly user her as a "binder" for her history...
...weeks ago both difficulties fused in the revolt of 26-year-old Captain Andi Abdul Aziz, onetime paratrooper in the Dutch Indonesia corps. Aziz and his men, all recently transferred to the new U.S.I. army, were serving reluctantly under a Republican garrison commander in the state of East Indonesia. When they learned that the government planned to add nearly 1,000 Republican troops to those already in Macassar (pop. 85,000), Aziz and his men decided that their former enemies had gone...
Viet Nam, one of three states in Indo-China, was colonized by the French in 1860. Its bid for home rule dates from Skirmishes in the 70's to the wholesale revolt which began after World War II and which still goes on. France's cure for the Viet Namese problems is a semi-autonomous government headed by Emperor Bao-Dai, native monarch who had considerable pre-war support. But under the past which put Bao-Dai, in office last year, France retains control over Viet Nam's foreign policy and of the Viet Namese army in war-time; France...
Cornejo and de las Casas were tried with 48 other civilians and 190 members of the navy for complicity in a naval revolt in Callao in October 1948. Cornejo got five years, de las Casas six. Of the remaining defendants, ten civilians were acquitted; the others got terms of from one year to life. Only one, a naval petty officer, was condemned to death...
...science and the resulting new philosophies. After that, he is understandably content to give up trying to frame the mind of the most complex of all nations and moves rapidly through such routine academic assignments as William James and Pragmatism, Thorstein Veblen and the New Economics, the Literature of Revolt...