Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of Abd el Krim's blusterings, a major North African revolt was unlikely. The voice from the past was mainly a reminder of happier days when the word "war" called up romanticized pictures of the French Foreign Legion, rather than nuclear horrors...
...Russian Composer Modest Mussorgsky began putting together a notebook entitled "Khovanchina; a People's Musical Drama-Materials." It was the biggest project of his career: a historical opera dealing with the abortive revolt of the feudal Princes Khovansky and their followers (Khovanchina) against the Westernizing influences of Peter the Great's court...
Love & Hate. "Thus, in killing Jesus, man repeated symbolically upon Him the primal act of Adam's revolt against God, just as an individual transfers to an analyst his infantile feelings for his parents. But had Jesus been simply a man, like all other men, this act could not have had any therapeutic value; it is only because Jesus was Himself God, and is accepted as such by the Christian, that His death has any beneficial effect...
...shopping around for a government which would be more apt to attract U.S. aid. Acheson says he is afraid a continued U.S. cold shoulder might bring Spain a "costly civil war." A U.S. Ambassador and some aid will make sure that Franco and his bully boys can block that revolt before it ever gets started...
...celibate life, and had moved into the dressing room. Judge Eric Weston (one of the few remaining Britons on India's bench) denied Mrs. Mehta's petition. He dryly observed: "I do not think there is any room for doubt that the teachings [of Krishnamurti] suggesting revolt of the wife from her doormat position must have had their effect upon her mind . . . This led to her refusal to carry on marital relations with her husband, which must have caused considerable resentment. Final rupture was the inevitable result of a situation which was largely of her own creation...