Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle Planners. Girding for battle, the Army seized upon its "Policy Coordinating Group" as an equivalent to the Navy's famed Op-23, which masterminded the 1949 Revolt of the Admirals. Already moved directly under Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor from its place as a semidetached study unit, the group was soon well staffed with young colonels under Brigadier General L. C. Metheny, 49, a cool, sharp planner. Metheny & Co. began setting up the Army line with a long series of staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established...
Their most effective argument on Cyprus is pragmatic: by its hold "at whatever cost" policy, the Tories deepen the hostility of people who had once been their friends, antagonize world opinion-and are not succeeding in their aim of breaking the revolt...
...Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains, he was put on the Mau Mau murder list...
Communist Territories: From all outward signs, the Kremlin's men intend to encourage some form of controlled nationalism in the satellites (a process not to be confused with Titoism, which was an uncontrollable revolt). Within Russia the Kremlin has reduced the work week from 48 to 46 hours, released thousands of political prisoners from internment, raised pensions for the aged and disabled, and sought to modify some of the strains of the Stalin era. Since this is good business for the Communist leaders, who hope to get more productivity out of the beneficiaries, the West has found such gestures...
...been printed before Shinicky's death, and still bore his name. There were few incidents and no certified cases of interference with the voters. By nightfall, the huge unpainted boxes began to give up their secret. It proved to be a bitter one for Syngman Rhee. In a revolt that spread through cities and villages alike, the people of South Korea had dealt Rhee and his government a stunning blow...