Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explosions of bombs, poppings of rifles, whistlings of bullets, clashings of knives and swords filled the streets of Lisbon one morning last week. Many people were killed, President Texeira Gomez sought refuge in one of the city barracks. Loyal troops, after a considerable struggle, finally put down the revolt. Violent disturbances in the Provinces were also reported...
...plaudits of 10 and 15 years ago. Reform is apparently obsolete. Before the War, Ben Lindsey's story was shouted from front page to front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture featured him. For this health and sex publication, the Judge wrote a series on The Revolt of Modern Youth, in which he exposed the "code of the flapper world." In it he told the story of an innocent girl whose family had never told her anything, who wanted experience, who found it. "The institution of marriage should be tended?it is allowed to grow like...
...rift: The Grand National Assembly at Angora extended for a month martial law declared in the vilayets occupied by the rebellious Kurds (TIME, Mar. 9, 16). The General Staff of the Army warned the inhabitants against aiding in any manner whatsoever the revolt against the authority of the republican government. The clouds grew dense...
...this time he was active, spreading revolt through his Anti-Manchu organization, known far and wide in China as the "Dare-to-dies...
...revolution unfurled its desperate banners; and, by the twelfth day of the following year, China, the oldest of monarchies, had become a republic. Dr. Sun did not get what he wanted out of the revolution; he formed a separate republic in the south and kept up the spirit of revolt against successive administrations in Peking. It was this attitude that earned for him the soubriquet of "the perpetual rebel...