Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shared bitterness of parents all over Boston glares forth in the treatment a group of mothers at Charlestown High on Wednesday gave to reporters and cameramen, most of whom were there just because they "had to be" themselves. To publicize their anger and to be photographed, the demonstrators stood outside the high school and hurled bottles and bricks. But when press arrived, they jeered at them and cried. "You guys are vultures." Together, of course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure...
...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
Then, on the final night, the President in his acceptance speech performed at his strongest, appeasing much of the party's inner anger and directing its passions toward the fight against the Democrats. It was the best speech Jerry Ford ever made. He seemed transformed?vigorous, authoritative. He brought even the diehard Reaganites in the Texas delegation to their feet. For the first time, the hall previously turbulent with divisive cheerleading resounded in a unison of "We want Ford...
...chairman of the North Carolina delegation had asked for a roll-call vote on a pro-Reagan foreign policy amendment to the Republican platform, when pro-Ford Convention Chairman John Rhodes ordered a voice vote and gaveled the session to a close. Reagan delegations exploded in anger. Screamed Ellis: "Railroaded! You have broken the rules!" It was one of the most dramatic moments of last week's Republican National Convention...
...whether "the American people might still be of a mind to punish Republicans at the polls for the sins of a Republican President no longer around." Rhodes said he found such a prospect "unfathomable" and concluded that if voters held current Republicans responsible for Watergate and failed to show anger at Democrats for Congressional abuse and scandal, it would be the "most unconscionable double standard in the history of American politics...