Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke Presidents: seven of them in seven years, including Grau San Martin, whom he propped up for a few months (September 1933-January 1934). He fattened the Army from 8,000 to 20,000 men, gave it one-fourth of Cuba's budget. He put down political unrest with a hard sergeant's hand...
Muted Thunder. The unity of the Labor Party was at stake. Bevan had become the voice of a deep unrest, an equally deep suspicion among the working masses on whom the Party depends...
Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico last week had every reason to be nervous about the unrest in neighboring El Salvador (see col. 1). If El Salvador could defy a tyrant, Guatemalans might try the same thing...
Such Nazi bigwigs as Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Rommel and Rundstedt carrying the burden of war and defeat, also resented the Führer's withdrawal. They stamped down sparks of unrest. Old rumors cropped up about violent disagreement within the ruling clique, and experienced correspondents thought that now the rumors were probably true. But Naziwise Swedes saw no chance of such disagreement leading to breakdown until "the invasion is consolidated and Allied advance guards are well on the way to Germany's frontiers...
...protest against schedules requiring alternate twelve-and four-hour days caused the strike. But the peremptory strike and the Government's peremptory action was a gaudy symptom of a serious condition. Labor unrest was growing in Britain, workers in many regions and industries were in revolt against their own leaders. And the Government was getting tough. Last week it put into effect a regulation providing imprisonment up to five years, fines of $2,000 for persons convicted of fomenting strikes...