Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
...civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen the homogeneity to make a common fight...
...corruption had rumpled traditional democracy. Conflict with the coffee barons over social legislation had fanned the opposition. Result: just enough revolutionary gunplay (one dead, two wounded) to keep the troops in trim. If the 50,000-odd Nicaraguans now living in Costa Rica had joined last week's revolt, it would not have been comic opera...
...fanatical anti-Zionist ever since the British appointed him as Mufti in 1921. In 1937, after a murder, he was wafted out of Palestine, where a warrant still exists for his arrest. During the war, he was accused of trafficking with Hitler and Mussolini, of fomenting the Iraq revolt of 1941, and of urging on Germany a systematic policy of exterminating Jews. Last year he entered France from Switzerland, and has been living luxuriously at a villa 13 miles from Paris under mild police surveillance which left his movements unhampered...
...Milan, where St. Ambrose preached of peace and Leonardo painted his Last Supper, a handsome young bandit, Ezio Barbieri, was on trial last week for his part in the April revolt at San Vittore prison. A woman shouted to Barbieri that his newborn baby weighed 8½ Ibs. Modern Milan's son shouted back across the courtroom: "Is the Tommy gun included in that weight...