Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students of the seventh century and of the 200 years which followed were much like the Harvardmen of today in their dislike of and revolt against petty regulations. As a result the history of religion here during these two centuries is largely a history of revolt...
Much tension and hard feeling resulted which led to the temporary firing of the editor of the association's newspaper. Finally, however, tension seemed to quite down and the Divinity students were again at peace with each other. But this too was a lesson in revolt against enforced religion even by those who might be expected to advocate...
...Vandenberg way did not include the public martyrdom of a Billy Mitchell or the free-swinging tactics of a "Hap" Arnold. Van ducked involvement in side issues and took long detours around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged...
Poor Rhonda, can anything save her now? Odd, but it so happens that the captain of the sultan's guard (Jeff Chandler) is a fellow Rhonda knew back in Salem, Mass. And so the harem-scare'em ends with Jeff at the head of a revolt ("Come on, slaves, what have we got to lose?") that leaves Omar wriggling in Technicolor on a meathook...
...others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four-man war council to stamp out the 18-month-old Mau Mau revolt, 2) a 16-man Cabinet to act as "the principal instrument of government." The crucial new feature: the Cabinet would include, for the first time in East Africa, non-white ministers-two Indians and an African...