Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...native of nearby Glencoe, Dann was suspected by authorities in a 1986 ice- % pick attack on her estranged husband, although she was never charged. The FBI wanted to question her about making threatening telephone calls, and in March she had been picked up in Madison, Wis., for shoplifting. On Friday morning Dann delivered poisoned food to several homes and college fraternities. She then set fire to a house where she had worked as a baby- sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school...
...several swarms imported to Brazil from Africa were accidentally released. Sounding like a small airplane in flight, the hordes have been traveling at the rate of more than 300 miles a year. The bees are more aggressive than most domestic strains; when disturbed or defending their nests, they frequently attack animals and humans. Although their venom is no more potent than that of European bees, they are much likelier to sting, and so many sting at once that serious injury, even death, can result. Hundreds have died from such attacks in Latin America...
Meese sees his antagonists as the traditional liberal assault forces, in league with the media. They come on, in his view, in a set piece of political attack. First, a selected victim is branded as controversial. Then he is labeled an embarrassment to the Government. Finally it is said the fellow has to go. If that tactic proceeds much further unchallenged, Meese believes, such forces will soon paralyze any Government. "I am going to continue the leadership of the Department of Justice," he says. "I am going to wait until the prosecutor's report is issued, and then...
Black students no longer face George Wallace in the doorways of Alabama colleges. Black marchers are no longer confronted by Bull Connor, police attack dogs, and water cannons. But the the bigotry remains...
...UMass-Amherst in February, students who occupied the New Africa House for six days to protest a racial attack on campus told reporters, "We're not revolutionaries. We're reasonable people with reasonable demands who intend to be taken seriously...