Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominent Gaullists to a rally at the Palais de Chaillot for his newly formed Association for the Fifth Republic. In a brilliant and scathing attack on the old party system, Malraux charged that opposition leaders had not been able to unite to bring peace in Algeria, to confront the revolt of French generals, or to further Franco-German reconciliation. Sarcastically he added, "But they did unite before the terrifying menace" of the referendum...
High Cost of Victory. In the chaos of battle, many soldiers panicked and ran. A serious revolt occurred when 700 Scots, exhausted from three years' fighting in North Africa, sullenly refused to go into battle. By the fifth day ashore, Mark Clark was so discouraged that, says Pond, he gave preliminary orders to withdraw the American troops from the beachhead and use them to reinforce the British; stunned by the order, the British simply ignored...
...long, often bloody history of revolt against oppression in Cuba...
...once called ''the barracks" of South America. Now Betancourt is struggling to finish his five-year term, hold free elections and see his legal successor take office in February 1964. If he succeeds, it will be another historic first for a nation whose history is riddled with revolt and dictatorship...
...when World War II breaks out, Zeko snaps out of his malaise. He sees a group of peasants hanged from lampposts by the Nazis, and in sudden outrage, he resolves to join the underground. Simultaneously, he finds the courage to revolt against the tyranny of his wife, and at last becomes the master of his own house...