Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show none of the condescension that surrounds the British throne. Danes seem happy enough that King Frederik lives in a wing of the Amalienborg Palace in downtown Copenhagen rather than in the gloomy, inconvenient Christiansborg Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely sorry for King Olaf, a dedicated yachtsman and onetime Olympics champion, when Khrushchev's visit forced him to forgo a regatta at Hanko Island last week...
They will get there none too soon, for revolt flared in yet another important town in the Congo's anarchic east. It was in Albertville, capital of North Katanga, where only a month ago the government managed to regain control from dissident rebels. Now once again, the streets of Albertville were alive with armed insurgents; scores of whites gathered at the tiny airport in hopes of evacuation, while others took refuge on two steamers anchored offshore in Lake Tanganyika. Where was Adoula's army? Also seeking safety, by all accounts. When last seen, elements of the local garrison...
...Mulele's Red-backed rebellion; in Stanleyville and Maniema province, the government holds control by a hair, and could be upset at any time. The two battalions that General Mobutu has committed in Kivu are the last remaining government troops available for emergency duty. If the flame of revolt erupts anywhere else, it will simply have to burn itself out-or else spread across the whole country...
...University of North Carolina, said in a baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt University that graduates should "view the universe as an ordered place with a purpose," not see life as "just one damn thing after another." But Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, making the commencement address there, saw a world in revolt, "a world running wild with no place for minds standing still." Chicago Advertising Executive Lee King, at Northwestern, said that "our deadly malady is a disappearing supply of the creative resource," while at Pomona Ambassador (to Mexico) Fulton Freeman saw students "coming into creative citizenship at a fascinating moment...
...begin a two-week meeting with the aim of persuading more nations to bar trade with South Africa. The world, says Committee Chairman Diallo Telli of Guinea, faces a choice between "violence on the one hand, economic sanctions on the other" - a threat that black South Africans will ultimately revolt unless economic pressures force the government to change its ways...