Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announce the appointment of Eleanor Roosevelt as.chairman of a new group to draft some stiff civil rights platform proposals. The chances are "very strong" that he will send forth "task forces" of lawyers to investigate and recommend reprisals against the seven skittish Southern states which have indicated they may revolt rather than swallow a too-bitter civil rights pill...
...command, Aneurin Bevan, standing by his leader, kept the party conference from falling apart in November. Nye Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy, Gaitskell closeted himself with his intellectual friends, and when he belatedly sallied out late last month, it was to set forth his views...
...Bolivia, President Hernan Siles Zuazo declared a complete political amnesty in preparation for the May 22 general elections, and a regiment of National Police took the occasion to revolt in La Paz, fought a futile, five-hour battle with loyal troops that left 16 killed, 106 wounded...
...Marshal Suryadarma rushed to Merdeka palace and tried desperately to explain what had happened. He had much explaining to do, for it developed that trigger-happy Lieut. Mauker comes from revolt-ridden North Celebes, and has been on the police blacklists for some time (his brother was under arrest there for suspected dealings with the anti-Communist rebels). Government officials gulped even more uncomfortably on learning that Mauker had been one of the Indonesian pilots to fly escort for Nikita Khrushchev when the Soviet leader came to visit Sukarno last month...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...