Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volatile electorate fooled pollsters in a number of states. Pat Caddell, who handled Jimmy Carter's polling in 1976, assured New Hampshire Democratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre that he was leading Gordon Humphrey by 59.5% to 30%, with no signs of movement toward the Republican. Humphrey won, 51% to 49%. Respected Pollster Peter Hart found that incumbent Democrat Dick Clark was leading his conservative Republican opponent Roger Jepsen 57% to 27% in October. "We did not have it tight, and we did not have Jepsen moving up," says Hart. Jepsen beat Clark, 52% to 48%. In Kansas, one survey...
...return-to-work movement was far from enthusiastic, and the country's 10 million students and 400,000 teachers, as well as newspaper reporters in Tehran, were still out on strike in support of their demands for political reforms and an end to martial law and press censorship. Tehran's normally thriving bazaar was still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris...
...monastery is run by the American congregation of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE), founded in 1865 in England by Richard Benson. This monastic order grew directly out of the Oxford movement, which wrested the control of the Anglican Church from the hands of the English State. Theologically, the movement sought to restore the practices of the church to their original condition, as they were long before the Reformation. In the jargon of the church, the monks are high church anglo-Catholics. That is, they use an elaborate ritual and they agree with the Roman Catholic Church...
...Lovejoy, an anti-nuclear activist and member of the Clamshell Alliance, told the crowd last night, "It's very hard to get union people together with no-nuke supporters, the women's movement, and environmentalists" and because of the wide range of support for Silkwood, her cause is "unique...
...black papers like Percy Qoboza's Post.) But the U.S. is clearly some kind of symbol to South Africans, though it is a confused one at best. To blacks, it seems to be a place of freedom, to some extent at least, the place where a black civil rights movement could make headway without fullscale war. To whites, America is an unreliable ally, which must be drawn in on their side in the fight against the liberation movement. More and more, South African government officials describe apartheid-ruled South Africa as Africa's last hold-out against Marxism...