Word: eruption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grim-faced political leaders huddling long into the night. Yet the storm gathering force last week in Italy was more ominous than any of the change-of-government crises that have preceded it-on the average of one every ten months since 1946. Amid the worst violence to erupt in the country in five years, the 18-month-old minority government of Premier Giulio Andreotti, faltering for weeks, slid toward all but certain collapse. Andreotti was expected to submit his resignation to President Giovanni Leone early this week, thus setting the stage for the moment that democratic governments around...
Violence was ever ready to erupt in Lee. At nine, he lunged at his half brother with a butcher knife-an attack that their mother dismissed as one of Lee's "little scuffles." A New York City social worker, who interviewed Lee when he was a truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that...
...introduced legal sanctions to raise the age of marriage. A few are considering direct legal limitations on family size and sanctions to enforce them. No government really wants to resort to this. But neither can any government afford to let population pressure grow so large that social frustrations finally erupt into irrational violence and civil disintegration...
...middle-class Americans as they rush by in their cars or commuter trains?doors locked, windows closed, moving fast. But out there is a different world, a place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes. Affluent people know little about this world, except when despair makes it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news. Behind its crumbling walls lives a large group of people who are more intractable, more socially alien and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass...
...could throw out much more debris. Japanese volcanologists report that columns of smoke mixed with steam and smelling heavily of sulfur are still rising from four new craters created by the recent explosion. They warn that the volcano, which has already caused some $80 million in damages, could erupt again at any moment...