Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been warned, for as long as I served in Government and now by those in the Nixon Administration, of the "right-wing backlash," the new "loss of China" witch-hunt, that would follow such a move. We have been warned of the headlong flight into "isolationism" or "neoisolationism" that would ensue. Are these real dangers...
...I.R.A. were not trouble enough, Northern Ireland is faced with yet another threat to what remains of peace: the prospect of a militant Protestant backlash. One Catholic youth was killed in his Belfast home last week by two men who police think might have been Protestant extremists. Publications put out by such militant organizations as the Loyalist Association of Workers have grown tougher in their statements regarding the need to "destroy for all time this evil in our midst." At week's end, more than 50,000 Protestants staged a mass rally to display their solidarity against a "sellout...
...begun to suffer the disillusionment of "Liberation Backlash" already. For I've seen that for a wife and mother to return to work there is little financial gain. And since there aren't nearly enough "glamour" jobs to go around, most just trade the drudgery of housewifery for the drudgery of an office...
...been put against the wall and shot to death. Conspicuously absent from the funeral were members of the powerful French Communist Party, whose union-the Confédération Générate du Travail (CGT) -represents the Renault workers. Mindful of the popular backlash in 1968 that made the Gaullists stronger than ever, and still eager to establish their political respectability, the Communists decried the disruptive tactics of the gauchistes. But they did denounce the Overney killing as "an extensive exercise in political provocation for the benefit of the government." For its part, the government wavered...
...beginnings of repression, of backlash. Three places where I have spoken in the last four months there have been bomb scares. A fire bomb was thrown at my car in Michigan; two cars tried to force me off the road in Florida-and I had my baby with me. Still, when a middle-aged woman in Illinois gets up and says we have to seize the genetic code, something's happening...