Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Party seems to be forming itself like another part of the federal bureaucracy. In Ranney's view, a Kennedy revolt of 400 or 500 delegates never materialized in part because too many of the people on the floor had a personal stake in spending programs Jimmy Carter had fostered for states and localities...
...revolution that toppled Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, twelve months ago sent shock waves through the region. On the one hand, it stirred yearnings for reform and revolt among both students and the disfranchised peasants; on the other, it prompted panic-stricken oligarchs, determined to retain historic power, to harden then-resistance to change. Ironically, while Nicaragua itself has been able to make considerable headway in consolidating its revolution-peacefully, thus far -a spiral of terrorist violence has escalated elsewhere. Lawless gunmen of both the left and right have brought El Salvador and Guatemala to the brink...
...most impressive evidence of a nascent revolt came in Washington, where 40 Democratic members of the House of Representatives, including a number of nationally known liberals, met to talk about ways of throwing open the convention so that it could nominate someone other than Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy. The organizers of the meeting included Thomas Downey of New York, a Carter supporter, and Toby Moffett of Connecticut, a Kennedy backer. Among those who attended were Don Edwards of California, Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and three leading black Representatives: Shirley Chisholm of New York, John Conyers...
Squelching a revolt gently...
...arrow rebellion that had nettled London and Paris during eight weeks of fruitless negotiations with Rebel Leader Jimmy Stevens,* a Eurasian and former bulldozer driver who declared the island independent of the New Hebrides central government of Chief Minister Walter Lini and renamed Espiritu Santo "Vemarana." The revolt embarrassed Britain and France, which have governed the New Hebrides as a joint colonial condominium for 74 years, particularly since the island chain was due to gain full independence this week...