Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secessions were nothing new for the Scots. They have thrived on religious rebellion from Knox's day down. While last century's revolt did not cause men to murder one another, as happened on earlier occasions, ministers who refused to help in the fight for a free and democratic kirk found themselves sometimes in awkward spots, including being hung by the heels under parish bridges...
From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded...
...branch of the German armed forces. They are tough, hardened sailors, inured now to the discomforts and nerve-racking moments of life in the submarines. Doenitz labored to level the usual barriers between officers and men, and there have been no signs of the bitterness which contributed to a revolt of German crews in World...
Only a few weeks ago, revolt against the New Deal had fired the Governors to high talk. They were solemnly resoluting again when Franklin Roosevelt headed south. Each Governor scurried to his home state to meet the President. After they had ridden with him in pomp & circumstance, the Governors whistled a notably different tune...
That Russia's philosophy has changed from one of championing proletariat revolt to one solely for the betterment of the fatherland, was the view expressed by R. C. Macridis, teaching fellow in Government. He predicts that the Soviet's party line will change when the United States and England are exhausted, revealing the old Czarist idea of expansion...