Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd "Paco" Arana had patiently listened to a string of well-heeled callers telling him why he should send "that damned schoolteacher" back to Argentina (where Arevalo spent 15 years). A smart politician, Arana was friendly to all, made promises and took no action-except to put down outright revolt. He did not want to upset the government; he wanted to be elected President himself in 1950, when Arevalo's term ends...
England was in spiritual chaos after its revolt from the Church of Rome, and men were attracted to a moral code which was based on such undeviating symbols as the level, the compass and the plumb. The Masons conceived of God as "The Great Architect of the Universe." The "G" in Masonic emblems can stand for God and/or Geometry. Euclid and Pythagoras became the order's patron saints...
...been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow. They pitched their white tents and grazed their horses on the city's airfield, took over the guard of public buildings. Ma was making sure that Nationalist troops in Lanchow would not revolt against him. Then, unannounced, he followed in a green Buick escorted by a truckful of bodyguards...
...might yet turn out that his head-on tactics would bring the warring services together where James Forrestal's patient indecision had failed. But an end to service rivalries could never be reached by decree alone. With the Navy in open revolt last week, it was plainer than ever that real unification was also a state of mind: the services had to be convinced, not just told. By that definition, Louis Johnson's job had just begun...
Representatives from Princeton undergraduate clubs will meet with university President Harold W. Dodds tomorrow to attempt to iron out the student-administration dispute that has kept the New Jersey campus in a state of near-revolt since Wednesday...