Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, the Communist and non-Communist worlds - and some countries that find themselves in be tween-joined in a general condemnation of Soviet force. The free world is accustomed to condemning Russian inroads and intransigence, from the brutal putdown of the Hungarian revolt to the erection of the Berlin Wall. In the past, most Communist countries and parties have either wholeheartedly supported such transgressions-or at least closed their eyes to them-but no longer. Last week, in one country after another, Communists found themselves on the side of the Czechoslovaks...
...name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...
Little Popes. Such reforms, Faure admits, probably would not have been initiated without last spring's student revolt. He thinks that the only opposition to his reforms will come from "some professors who have become sort of little popes." His biggest worry is that anarchist and Trotskyite students bent on revolutionizing all of French society will incite new violence, no matter what educational reforms are achieved. Even the more moderate rebels are a bit wary of Faure's promises. Bernard Herszberg, leader of SNESUP, a militant teachers' group, deplores the government's policy of "repression...
...chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers in negotiating the full integration of agriculture into the Common Market. If he succeeds in reforming French education without another revolt, it might well be his most significant triumph...
...both France and its Common Market trading partners. The output of French factories rose a mere 2.2% in 1967 and, as a consequence, one-fifth of the country's industrial capacity lay idle early this year. The resulting unemployment plainly aggravated the social unrest that welled into revolt during...