Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic Congress that was in open revolt, a Senate Majority Leader (Alben Barkley) who resigned rather than back him, and a Senate that was in a mood to make a rare gesture by voting down the nomination of Henry Wallace for Secretary of Commerce...
...hatred of Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
...first President-and President again now-did not long survive Syria's humiliating performance against the Israelis in 1948. (Syria's one claim to military distinction was the capture of a small hill 48 hours after the armistice.) In March 1949 Kuwatly was ousted in a bloodless revolt led by a Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct...
...then, at the moment when the Arabs thought the land at last theirs, they discovered that the British had blandly assigned Syria to France and Iraq to themselves. Under a League of Nations mandate, the French treated Syria as a colony, exploiting and repressing it. When a nationalist revolt started by the Druses in 1925 spread to Damascus, French troops twice bombarded the city, killing over 1,000 people...
...Respectability. Being the outs, the Communists gained by the government's failure to cope with the problems of poverty, corruption and revolt. But they were also helped materially by spellbinding President Sukarno, who ever since he came back from Mao's China, has been urging "guided democracy" and pressuring for the inclusion of Communists in the Cabinet. (He has already given them seats in his own hand-picked new "temporary" National Council...