Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Momentarily, Harry Truman's announcement mended one breach in the Democratic Party. The Southern Democrats' revolt was against Truman, and now the target was gone. But there was no assurance that the wound was healed permanently...
...always tyrannized her sister Dolly (finely played by Mildred Natwick). But when she tries to cheat her as well, Dolly flees-with a young boy cousin and a tart-tongued servant (well played by Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality, and her realistic...
...seems to us that Cardinal Segura, Dictator Franco and others in Spain should take a look at their history books. Not only could they discover that the Protestant Revolt actually did happen and had rather considerable repercussions all over the world, but they might also notice that any persecution-short of extermination-has invariably strengthened the persecuted religion in the long run. Catholics should be the last to forget...
Double Defeat. The only citizens willing to take a stand against the Batista revolt were a small band of students who shut themselves up in the university, living off cookies from the canteen and shouting ineffectual defiance of Batista's coup. Police calmly ringed the area, allowing anyone to leave but none to enter; the demonstration soon petered...
...during last September's abortive military uprising. C.G.T. Boss José Espejo shouted the radio alarm. On cue, workers rushed to the presidential palace; in the suburbs drivers jammed their big diesel buses across roads by which troops or tanks might have moved on the capital. After the revolt was snuffed out, "special mission'' groups of workers' militia swung briskly into action, rounding up and arresting suspects, running spot checks for illegal arms...