Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African police. Without warning they charged out of the door pushing aside grabbing elbowing choking and trampling protesters. Although we had unhesitatingly let out Conservative Club members, remaining ones joined the police in the charge, as did unmarked, unidentified security people. What is the motivation for that sort of behavior? Who initiated this violence...
...surrogate, played by Brad Davis (who starred in the film Midnight Express), and a New York Times fashion reporter, portrayed with appealing directness and believability by D.W. Moffett. The reporter, who contracts AIDS, speaks the focal line: "There is not a good word to be said for anybody's behavior in this whole mess...
...historic moment, although it was hard to tell from the behavior of those involved. House Democrats cheered and mockingly waved their handkerchiefs as their Republican colleagues paraded up the center aisle of the chamber and out the door. When the G.O.P. members passed by, Democrats laughed and shook their hands...
...Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...PERFECT WORLD, we would condemn the Lowell House blockade as an unproductive move that diverted attention from South Africa and Harvard's investment policies. But in the context of the day's events, including both the provocation of the protestors and the substandard behavior by the police, the vote to blockade was not unreasonable...