Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
...where he had gone to watch army maneuvers. White-haired, gentle-mannered President Lopez padded sleepily to the door, peered into the barrels of two drawn revolvers, admitted his visitors, learned that he was "under arrest." Another colonel, one Diogenes Gil, had led a successful army revolt, said the visitors. The President had two hours to resign. Soldiers entered, stepped briskly to all the windows and doors and stood with their rifles raised...
...Individual Madness." In Bogota, news of the revolt reached Government Minister Alberto Lleras, who promptly rallied the cabinet around Vice President Dario Enchandia. Garrisons had also revolted in Bucaramanga and Ibague. Acting President Enchandia declared a state of civil war, called the revolt "an act of individual madness...
Captain Benito Castanedo was expelled from the Mexican Army last week. Facing a firing squad for a drunken, one-man revolt, he was saved at the last moment when his wife and six children appealed to President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around...
...began the friendship of Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz. It is all the story of A Passage to India. For their friendship led to complications so involved that before it ended (with Mrs. Moore's death) the city was in revolt. At each stage of their innocent progress toward intimacy the massive forces of misunderstanding and suspicion coiled around them and their friends. The common-sensical politeness and kindliness of Mrs. Moore was the greatest mystery in India. It baffled people like Dr. Aziz. They thought she was joining them when she was merely being kind. They thought...