Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inexorable Hand. Yet the panic and the terror seemed somehow to be kept in bounds. They were not yet visibly leading to chaos and revolt. One Swiss reporter admired the efficient way the refugees were handled, in the face of terrific Allied air bombardments. For lack of transportation, the workers slept in the Berlin factories-but the point was, they went on working. The radio said the Russians had slowed down, that a providential thaw had come to the rescue, that German counterattacks were imminent...
...Party had been the most aggressive section of the EAM. But no Communist Party undertakes an important action without Moscow's advice. The Soviet Government had remained scrupulously aloof from the fighting in Greece but Moscow could not escape the suspicion of having had some hand in the revolt...
...Revolt. To the seething union the case was obvious-the company was maintaining womanpower in Dayton's war-tight labor market without raising its basic wage rates. Finally the foot-tapping ceased. With abrupt, feminine exasperation, the operators went on strike...
...plain men and professional critics. Nevertheless, they exist. The U.S., in fact, began World War II with a rigid militia of statuary almost as big as the standing army. Now, with the U.S. entering its fourth war year and some World War II memorials already abuilding, something of a revolt against traditional war memorials has sprung up. The U.S. people have apparently decided that they want no concrete jeeps, or LSTs in marble. By last week city after city had begun to plan more useful ways of honoring the nation's fighting...
...most resolute dictatorships the world had ever known, serviced by one of the most complex and efficient systems of secret police. In carrying its ideals abroad, it had developed a new tactic in power politics - the appeal to the foreign masses to organize, conspire and ultimately revolt against the dominant classes in their respective countries. The promise was that when the socialist organization of abundance was complete, the totalitarian state would dissolve of its own superfluousness in a new kind of classless democracy. To most Americans and western Europeans this was the uncertain ideal, dictatorship, the inescapable fact...