Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mollet's logical inclination was to increase personal and corporate income taxes. At this direct challenge to the universal French conviction that a man's private income is none of the government's business, virtually the entire National Assembly rose in revolt. Socialist Mollet, keenly aware that any effective tax increase would fall most heavily upon the low-income groups from which he derives his political support, did not fight very hard. The result: an agreement that the government would not raise income taxes until it had tried to finance Algerian war costs through a public loan...
Flower of Manhood. In Los Angeles, addressing a florists' convention, Benton E. Krischer suggested that as a "revolt against monotony" men should wear flowers in their beards, illustrated his point by sporting a delphinium...
...stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet his half brother Prince Souphanou Vong, who happened to be leading a Communist revolt against the government...
...racing business. As Perón landed in Caracas, he was cheered by some 100 of these supporters with a fervor reminiscent of his old days in power. First to step up and embrace the fading strongman: General Raúl Tanco, one of the leaders of a June revolt against Argentina's provisional government...
...information that Admiral Radford proposes to cut the U.S. armed forces from 2,800,000 to 2,000,000 in the next four years. The Army and Navy, said the report (correctly), would absorb most of the manpower slash. All three service chiefs, the story went on, are in revolt against Radford (incorrect: the Air Force's General Nathan F. Twining is with him, the Army's General Maxwell Taylor and the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke against). So torrid is the battle, wrote Leviero, that all discussions of the manpower program have been postponed until after...