Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberation Backlash...
...such a jump, but politicians, above all, should look be fore they leap. If puns are to be part of this year's political campaigns, it is to be hoped that the efforts will improve. Already Muskie's punning has begun to work up a backlash...
...Northern Ireland, the alienation of the Catholic third of the population is very nearly total. Adding to Britain's problems is the ever-present danger of a Protestant backlash. The Orangemen have been remarkably quiescent during the recent weeks of violence and terror, but militant Protestants were angry and restive over the Catholics' success at Newry in defying the Ulster government's ban on parades and demonstrations. Last week William Craig, a leader of hard-line members of the ruling Unionist Party, announced the formation of the "Ulster Vanguard," whose 60,000 members, he said, were prepared...
From Southern segregationists Coles turned to some Northerners who are often as hostile toward blacks as Southerners. In The Middle Americans, published last year, Coles describes the policemen, firemen, bank tellers, typists, storekeepers, telephone repairmen and others who make up the nation's working class. Using words like backlash, ethnic blocs, bigots or hardhats to characterize these men and women turns millions of people into "them," Coles believes, creating "one more 'group' to be pitied or exploited or scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity...
...BEGAN the Southern Strategy. A long time coming to the Republican party, it appeared as if it might be a long time gone when, after its initial failure in 1960, a modified version was far more successful in '68. The full development and deployment of the Agnew Backlash Missile system in '69 and early '70 seemed to promise even better results...