Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heady Prediction. Battered on Capitol Hill, Kennedy had other worries besides. Midwestern polls suggested that the force of the farm revolt against the G.O.P. has been overestimated. Anti-Catholic prejudice was looming bigger in the South and Midwest than Kennedy had expected. In New York, a nonprofit organization called the Fair Campaign Practices Com. mittee gloomily reported that it saw "a substantial danger that the campaign in 1960 will be dirtier on the religious issue than it was in 1928." With religion hurting Kennedy in Dixie, Republicans were headily predicting that Nixon would carry Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and even...
...cautiously flexing his new muscles, he independently decided to enlarge the U.N. observer corps in revolt-torn Lebanon-despite Soviet vetoes of two resolutions asking just that. Russia did not like but swallowed his decision, and the U.N. found practical as well as theoretical acceptance for its acting as arbiter in internal disputes that might threaten peace. It edged even closer last year when, again over Russian objections, Dag established the U.N. presence in Laos after revival of the Communist Pathet Lao rebellion...
...still loyal to Premier Somsanith. Each side was kept from having to attack the other by the fact that the road between Vientiane and Luangprabang was washed out by the monsoon. Most of the 28,000-man Laotian army scattered throughout the country either had not heard of the revolt at all or reacted with Laos' soft, favorite phrase, "be pen nyan [it doesn't matter]." To break this stalemate, Kongle suggested the formation of a new government headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma, half brother of the Communist Pathet Lao commander and onetime neutralist Premier of Laos. This...
...Revolt Against Pomposity. In the view of his followers, Mort Sahl represents a new and growing feeling, described rather breathlessly by Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as "a mounting restlessness and discontent, an impatience with clichés and platitudes, a resentment against the materialist notion that affluence is the answer to everything, a contempt for banality and corn-in short, a revolt against pomposity. Sahl's popularity is a sign of a yearning for youth, irreverence, trenchancy, satire, a clean break with the past...
...nation so young and still so weak, such a stand was courageous and decidedly overambitious. "These United States of America," snorted Austria's Prince Metternich, "have astonished Europe by a new act of revolt, more unprovoked, fully as audacious and no less dangerous than the former"-meaning the American Revolution. But Lafayette called it "the best little bit of paper that God had ever permitted any man to give to the world." Intervention License. Teddy Roosevelt amended the Monroe Doctrine to mean that continued disturbance in a Latin American country could force the U.S. to intervene to forestall intervention...