Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt might have been able to outshout that call. But under F.D.R.'s absolute control of the party there had never been a chance for another real leader to rise to the surface of the Democratic Party. Harry Truman was clearly not such a man. So the rebels bayed frantically off in all directions in search of a winner-and succeeded in pulling the roof down about their ears...
...restraint and good sense through all the bickering, was still confident. He was sure that he had found a sound campaign argument in the record of the 80th Congress. In his own homely style he would pound it home across the nation. And his fortunes and popularity would probably rise a bit. They could hardly sink lower...
...attack stalled. As they arrived, more & more Nationalist divisions were fed into the fight. Nationalist planes strafed and bombed the. encircling Communist lines. When repeated assaults failed, Chen Yi tried a last dodge. Loudspeakers in his trenches cried to the surrounded Fifth Army divisions: "Save yourselves needless sacrifice! Rise up and join the anti-Chiang united front...
...dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...
...revolution could be. First, it was financed by Lieut. Colonel Alfonso Llosa, commander of Peruvian army forces high in the Andes by the Bolivian border. Hotheaded, reactionary Soldier Llosa forcibly borrowed 100,000 soles from the local bank; then he issued a clarion call to the army to rise against President Bustamante...