Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell could not identify the intruders, but police had a good idea who they were: members of the small but fanatic lunatic fringe of Puerto Rico's Nationalist movement, which agitates for violent revolt to win independence for the tiny U.S. island commonwealth. A few weeks ago, Congressman Powell roused their anger by speeches in Puerto Rico favoring statehood for the island, and by advocating the wider use of English in Puerto Rican public schools, which are supported in part by U.S. funds and are taught in Spanish. The day before the rock attack, about a hundred nationalists picketed...
...they mean to be obstreperous. Back in 1950, two of them tried to assassinate President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington, and in the foray one nationalist and a Washington policeman were killed. At the same time, Nationalist Leader Pedro Albizú Campos led a revolt on the island itself that ended with 33 dead. Four years later, nationalists shot up the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen. Harvard-educated Albizú Campos and his chief lieutenants are serving long jail terms, and their movement now seems in decline...
...Paris, a city old and rich in passing fancies, all it takes to plan a literary revolt is three disappointed writers and a sidewalk cafe. Most such uprisings are dissipated after the second apéritif, leaving nothing behind but the smile on the face of the waiter. Yet literary groups-if they persist long enough to draw serious attention-are occasionally to be reckoned with. Between about 1880 and 1895, for instance, the Symbolists, led by Mallarmé, reshaped the tone and temper of poetry, both English and French. In more recent times the Existentialists, though they produced...
...Rwanda, meanwhile, Belgium successfully threw its support behind the long suppressed Bahutu, who immediately rose up in bloody revolt against their Watutsi overlords. Although for centuries they had practiced a sort of subfeudal oppression, the Watutsi were openly backed by Russia, in and out of U.N., simply because they were vehemently anti-Belgian. But Bahutu numbers told. The Bahutu burned scores of Watutsi villages to the ground, cut scores of willowy Watutsi warriors literally down to size by slicing their legs off at the knees. Rwanda's Mwami Kigeri V fled into exile along with 142,000 supporters...
...revolt started one morning a fortnight ago, when restless crowds began calling for food and denouncing Castro. Before long, thousands of people jammed seven blocks of the business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...