Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated from one of Davis' high schools?much to his relief, she thinks. "I had constant run-ins with teachers and principals about student rights, and he got calls from them. One day I didn't salute the flag in school and someone complained. He got a lot of backlash, and I'm really grateful for his tolerance...
...aggressive Democratic lawyer who often conducts heated discussions with his three sons until 4 or 5 a.m. at his home in Auburn, N.Y. The talk has pushed Michaels from hawk to dove, but as a political realist he has a healthy respect for backlash: "Many people in my generation thought that the National Guard should have killed ten more at Kent State, and I am afraid they're expressing the majority view...
...Glenn Kimble, wonders whether mankind will suffer "a whole hell of a lot if the whooping crane doesn't quite make it." Flowery-hatted ladies from the D.A.R. have served notice that concern over pollution "is being distorted and exaggerated by emotional declarations and by intensive propaganda." Such backlash views are now being voiced in many parts of the country, although the protesters often have little more in common than the smoggy air they breathe...
...have toiled at the $3 billion California Water Plan (see map) and ignored critics who consider the project environmentally bankrupt. Last month the builders got a major boost when California voters approved an interest increase on $600 million worth of state bonds needed to continue the project. Now the backlash has begun...
When a long-haired antiwar demonstrator at the University of Kentucky grabbed A.B. ("Happy") Chandler by the tie, Chandler, 71, countered with his own backlash-a stiff punch in the nose. "I'm sorry I did that," said the former Governor and U.S. Senator. "I didn't even think." The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...