Their reputation was suspect, since they had staged a brazen mutiny against their Nobel Prize boss two years before, in 1957.

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It is widely thought that the unruffled pace of life in Tahiti prompted sailors on the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty to mutiny against their commanding officer, William Bligh, who was accused of mistreating his crew, in April 1789.

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The American Dream, in fact, is a form of mutiny--against convention, against one's past, against those who would keep one down.

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Turkey's three-party coalition headed by Bulent Ecevit was set to fall, after a mutiny within his own party against the ailing 77-year-old prime minister.

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