Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news sent everybody into a panic, especially Mark's poor parents, who had never been out of Omaha," Salem says. "Seeing that the air raids on the camps were getting fiercer, we decided that it would be best if all those concerned with the wedding left Beirut...
...first words upon arrival at Gatwick Airport captured his extraordinary, characteristic boldness. "My visit is taking place at a time of tension and anxiety," he said, though not mentioning the Falkland Islands by name. He pointedly appealed for prayers for peace. But besides that ever fiercer war with Argentina, where he now plans to travel next week, John Paul spoke to the religious conflict of the centuries. For the Pope was visiting a nation that symbolizes, perhaps as no other, rebellion against the papal office...
...those mid-60s views, and the survey data produced by Huntington, tell only one part of the story. As the Movement aged, it grew fiercer, following an ever-increasing spiral of rhetoric and action, a spiral that, unquestionably, helped destroy the cause. By 1969, at least the leading activists on college campuses had moved from liberal, moralistic frustration to programmatic, very radical leftism. Students who had been happy to march with signs were throwing rocks. Asked in 1969 what he foresaw "as the future tactic of the movement," Abbie Hoffman--by no means on the most radical edge...
...politics were never as good as George McGovern wanted them to be. And, if anything, the political game is rougher now, played by fiercer men, according to fewer rules. In a sense, the New Right's defeat of McGovern confirmed his obsolescence, confirmed that the political voices of the eighties will not speak with an indiscreet excess of conviction. Perhaps George McGovern, the former college professor, never belonged in politics in the first place. Perhaps that Capitol Hill office was meant for James Abdnor all along...
...Alluding to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran that overthrew the Shah, Sadat insisted he faced no similar threat. Said he: "Don't fear that we will have a Khomeini here." He insisted that his government was based on democratic principles. "Democracy, when it bites, has fiercer claws than dictators" because "democracy defends the mass population of the country...