Word: fermenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later, Bok still has never taken the statement back. Of course, he still hasn't found an ideal way of fulfilling it, either. It might have seemed as though last month's coup by Portuguese officers displeased with their country's colonial policy, followed by widely-publicized continuing ferment in both Portugal and its African colonies, gave Bok an excellent chance to carry out his pledge...
...which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign. In a brief, stiff and somewhat bitter speech, she acknowledged "a ferment that cannot be ignored" in Israeli politics and society. Her resignation, she said, would give Israel's voters "an opportunity to reconsider and arrive at a fresh decision in regard to the establishment of a new and stable government...
...Dutch abstractionist Piet Mondrian moved to New York City in 1940 and died there four years later. He was the greatest of all the European artists who, displaced by war, settled in America and began the ferment that culminated in what Art Historian Irving Sandler, in an infelicitously imperial phrase, recently called "the triumph of American painting." Yet the results of Mondrian's sojourn have to some extent been set on a back burner...
...anti-imperialist struggles in Indochina, Latin America, and Africa comes as less than a shock. The whole country finds Spire Agnew's alleged crimes as a country executive in Maryland more titillating news than daily reports of continuing warfare abroad. But more surprising is students ignorance of political ferment in their own backyard. While Harvard steers a steady course, at least one neighboring university still simmers with tensions left over from more explosive days...
Chile was in ferment last week throughout its 2,800-mile length. Violence flared in many places, and a massive truckers' strike had brought the economy practically to a standstill. Santiago seethed with riots and demonstrations as extremist factions of both the right and left sought to impose their will upon President Salvador Allende Gossens' Marxist government. In an effort to stabilize his regime, Allende shuffled ministries like a deck of cards...