Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squatters spent days demon strating for housing. Last week, after a delegation was rebuffed at city hall, they milled about the building, brandishing boards and iron bars, until carabinieri in riot gear drove them off. In the 19th century square where they jostled, the hero ic bronze statue of the "Green Count" of Savoy (a 14th century nobleman named Amadeo VI, whose sobriquet derives from his inevitable green jousting costume) had been draped with a new red flag. Beneath the statue of the count, a blonde girl frugged incongruously on the pedestal as the fighting rolled...
...addition to collecting information, the CIA was "to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." Under that directive, the CIA actively began trying to penetrate and even roll back the Bamboo and Iron Curtains, and to counter Communist influence in other countries. Its methods included support of pro-American political parties and individuals, covert propaganda, economic sabotage and paramilitary operations...
...detachment. On a New Year's Eve in Athens he is appalled by the chaos and aimlessness of a raucous crowd; yet he writes as though the lack of coherence that plagues these men and women were fated--a component of the national dissolution cast in iron by the Furies. His strange passivity in the face of political turmoil defies reality, turning slogans into stage props and demonstrators into actors...
President Ford thus gave his support to operations that helped destroy Latin America's oldest democracy. The junta that overthrew the popularly-elected Allende government almost exactly one year ago now rules Chile with an iron fist. Thousands were killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile...
Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that...