Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred years ago broad-shouldered, poker-faced Francisco Morazáán, a fighting man who dreamed of democracy and unity in the corrupt and revolt-torn states of Central America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...
...land of spectacular scenery and explosive people, General Somoza rules Nicaragua with the backing of the Nicaraguan National Guard -presented to him by U.S. marines who finally withdrew on Jan. 2, 1933. Last week he used them to arrest 13 persons, including Conservative generals accused of a German-inspired revolt plot. He believes that there is strength and prosperity in union. "All you have to do," says he, "is go to the U.S. and you can see that...
...home guards did not know that their strange comrades-in-arms were patriotic Pre-Raphaelites, members of that oddly assorted group of late 19th-Century British poets, painters and interior decorators whose whole creative life was a revolt against practically everything that had happened in the world for the last 400 years...
Britons last week were reading a book called Parents Revolt by a couple named Titmuss. Young Richard Titmuss of the Health Ministry and his wife Kathleen are among the sundry Britons who, amid their war worries, have found time for the fear that the British are a dying race...
...C.I.O. members of WPB's labor advisory committee promptly staged a counter-revolt, charging that their friend Libbey was fired "for telling the truth," that "vested interests" had blocked the steel program, that the interests were "given aid and comfort by certain dollar-a-year men." But everyone else, including Frederick Libbey, seemed pleased. Said he, as he started to look...