mutiny
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All of them involve high stakes: mutiny and trauma, transcendence and growth.
From Los Angeles Times
A bonus: Christian, a former journalist, is a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny.
From New York Times
One campaign is over, and another has begun: an urgent mutiny against a sitting congressman, led partly by his vanquished opponent.
From Washington Post
Although there is no immediate evidence of any challenge to Putin’s grip, the emergence of significant dissent in Moscow or a mutiny among disgruntled Russian troops could prove decisive, Alperovitch said.
From Washington Post
“America knows that Washington is broken,” Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, one of the ringleaders of the speaker mutiny, said Tuesday in pushing for the election of Andy Biggs, a fellow Arizona Republican.
From New York Times
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