Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students Lead Revolt...
...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
...pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...
...Wilson's idealistic visions of a world without violence. Rhee became convinced that a passive uprising in Korea would win his people recognition both from America and from the League of Nations. In 1919 resistance leaders who had remained in Korea met secretly in Seoul to plot a revolt. Swayed by secondhand reports of Rhee's views, the conspirators distributed to every village in Korea a copy of a Korean Declaration of Independence and a set of orders...
...democratic regime, headed by Synghman Rhee, because no propaganda can destroy Korean allegiance to Rhee, a legendary figure, who has fought for his country's independence for more than half a century. March 1, 1949--a date celebrated as Independence Day ever since--Rhee led an unsuccessful revolt against the Japanese who dominated his country from 1905 to 1945. Then Rhee set up a provisional government at Shanghai, which became the official Government when Japan fell...