Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national elections were only a month away. Brazil seethed with rumors: 1) that Dictator Getulio Vargas (no candidate) would find some way to remain in power; 2) that the supporters of Opposition Candidate General Eduardo Gomes, doubting the chances of an honest election, would stage a revolt...
...Central America, where a U.S. ambassadorial sneeze may start a revolt at any time, democracy and dictatorship contested across national borders. Costa Rica is a first-class democracy; El Salvador and Guatemala are struggling with the problem of embryo democracy. Nicaragua and Honduras are still outright dictatorships...
...turbulence of toppling cabinets, armed revolt and panic which rocked Buenos Aires and the Argentine nation, three facts emerged: 1) Colonel Juan Domingo Perón was out cold; 2) General Eduardo Avalos, new Minister of War, held the sword-hand; 3) democratic Argentines, united in a common front, were in no mood to accept anything less than the full restoration of constitutional government...
Remember Galileo! Truman's stand coincided with a gathering revolt of U.S. scientists. An important array of them feared that a U.S. policy based on illusions of secrecy might destroy the kind of free research which had made atomic fission possible. Even the sort of control recommended by the President would inevitably touch fields of research far beyond the military uses of the atom. Atomic development could not be totally controlled, nationally or internationally, without also controlling a large part of normal, peacetime scientific effort...
This attitude was not confined to U.S. scientists. Wrote the science editor of London's News Chronicle: "The cataclysm of Hiroshima has shocked the scientists into revolt. . . . Atomic energy [is] being used now as a pawn of power politics. They [the scientists] do not disclaim responsibility; they insist upon taking it. . . . They want a positive voice in public affairs...