Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowned Elizabeth II in 1953, here were many?even among her own cheering subjects?who felt that they were seeing the last of those great coronation pageants, that a tide of egalitarianism was swiftly making obsolete the very concept of monarchy. Now, except among a minority of zealous anti-royalists in Britain, that feeling has almost disappeared. Elizabeth's own gentle, wise and dutiful reign and the growing popularity of her Crown Prince son almost ensure that the foes of monarchy will not have their way. Even if he has to wait at the footstool of the throne for decades...
...said many numbers such as missile and warhead counts in arms limitation talks were "mindless" but that much progress has been made. He gave as examples the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty which stabilizes nuclear deterrence and the ban on nuclear testing in the atmosphere which protects the environment...
...resolution, which urges the firm to end all trade with and disengage itself from the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Indochina and Eastern Europe, "was written in a very extreme anti-communist way and hardly anyone took it seriously," David H. Rubin '80, the replacement for the usual undergraduate ACSR member, said yesterday...
...through takin' punches. You don't win fights takin' punches. Nobody ever won a fight takin' a punch," Kovak tells his men. He leads them on a strike against one of the city's toughest anti-union employers, watches as they get their heads broken open by union-busting goons, and then vows to fight back. During the ensuring fight, Ricky (as already mentioned) bludgeons to death a man who tries to shoot him; when the bloated Senator Andrew Madison (Rod Steiger) opens his McClellanesque hearings with evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk...
...enemy within." Ultimately, F.I.S.T. fails because it decides that the easiest way to pull off a story glorifying the triumph of labor over capital is to apotheosize Stallone; yet in furthering--if unwittingly--the alienation of the rank-and-file from union leadership, Stallone at best emerges as an anti-hero. Cheered by crowds of truckers after being grilled mercilessly--and ludicrosly--by Steiger, Stallone is later gunned down by some deus ex Mafia who obviously resented the notion of Rocky Balboa dressing in a business suit...