Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then at week's end sent his findings out through his network. Ford had fallen a notable seven points in the esteem of the people, from 52% to 45%. Over in Manhattan, Louis Harris was totting up his findings from some 1,500 personal interviews. The general drift was pretty much the same-down...
Growing Anarchy. The break in M.F.A. ranks was brought about by moderates determined to halt the gathering momentum toward Communist dictatorship. Led by former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, the moderates issued a petition of protest blaming the radicals-and indirectly the ruling junta-for growing anarchy, political drift and loss in confidence by the majority of the people...
...breaking away from Lisbon. Mild discontent has long simmered in the islands. The 300,000 inhabitants have resented paying higher taxes and higher prices than the mainland Portuguese. In recent months, this bitterness has flared into open hostility as the predominantly conservative Azorians have been jolted by the leftward drift of the mainland's politics...
...group started to drift off in twos and threes to Eliot House, which has been home, more or less, for the past month. Maggie made her way across the Anderson Bridge with Nancy Storrs--she knew Nancy probably better than any of the others, having rowed with her all spring in Cambridge at the Eastern Development Camp, a private rowing club. They paused in the Eliot House-courtyard, where a few people are almost always sitting and talking on the steps or the grass or the patio. But Maggie was quiet, and she soon left to take a shower before...
...outcome alarmed partisans of democracy and NATO strategists, who are already concerned about Portugal's continuing drift toward left-wing authoritarianism (see following story). When added to NATO's uncertainty over the future roles of Greece and Turkey as a result of the Cyprus crisis, the Italian vote portended troubles for the alliance's whole southern tier...