Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Helen Feldman, a Chicago secretary, he wrote: "I wired a bunch of these fanatics in New York, and told them if these Communists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such damphool legislation . . . that eventually the great mass of American people would revolt and figuratively liquidate every member of their groups...
Last year aging Mrs. Clara Driscoll, still addicted to cosmetics and long skirts and still chipper, won her last political fight. She stomped into the Nueces County Democratic convention, acidly scolded it out of joining the Texas revolt against...
...need of coal, raw materials, and food. The Allies are doing all they can to help Italy, but that may not be enough. A top Cabinet member said that the situation may be so serious in a few months that the Communists might decide the time was ripe for revolt. The Communist Party is growing, and many of the new members are ex-Fascists...
Mexico's generals, spawned by the Madero Revolution of 1911, which sent longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz scurrying to Paris, had multiplied with each succeeding revolt. Now the Mexican Army has so many generals that no one is able to count them accurately. Said a cynical Mexican official: "It is easier to count the soldiers...
Wilkes might have fomented revolt or even revolution. But he remained cool. Let time vindicate him, he murmured. Time sent him back to Parliament, made him Lord Mayor of London...