Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coupled with shock, a feeling of anger has arisen. Anger at the Arabs for launching their attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year; anger at the Americans for imposing the cease-fire just as Israeli forces stood on the verge of achieving a complete victory; anger at the fact that Israel was compelled to resupply the Egyptian Third Army, after it was trapped in battle and isolated. And anger, as well, at a United Nations, which sat in silence as evidence was presented documenting the torture and murder of Israeli soldiers by the Syrians...
...their departure, a telegram arrives from their friend, announcing that difficulties have arisen, and they must wait for a following letter. They camp out in their now empty apartment, waiting eight days for the letter, and by the time it comes, they have lost the will to travel. Now rooted in Geneva, we are to assume for good, they move to a new apartment, buy some new furniture, and seemingly begin new lives. In place of songs, there is tenant organizing in their new apartment building. They decide to have a baby and end the film by flipping a coin...
...unexpected from the president. But what is distressing is the way he has completely deceived the news agencies. There hasn't been a "candid White House official" in the five years that Nixon has been in office. Only a fool could believe that one has now suddenly arisen to leak honest stories to the American public. But that is the way the national press has been talking. As so often in the past, it has once again let this country down...
...knuckled under to the pressure to accept Nixon's loaded compromise, the furor now raised for impeachment the opportunity for the courts to hold the president in contempt, and the Justice Department purge which clearly demonstrates the administration's distaste for justice would not have arisen...
...planning of illegal or unethical activities. He testified that his involvement in the raising of funds to aid the defense of the original Watergate defendants was "prompted in the belief that it was proper and necessary to discharge what I assumed to be a moral obligation that had arisen in some manner unknown to me by reason of earlier events...