Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Added to that fear is disunity among black militants; the Panthers have engaged in bitter battle with Ron Karenga's US, a rival organization. What is more, white liberals are disaffected by the riots and by the increasing radicalization of black leadership. White radicals still in the Black Power movement are trying to regain a voice in its leadership. "Things are becoming localized and fragmented," says Los Angeles' R. C. Robinson, black president of the NARTRANS, a subsidiary of the giant North American Rockwell aerospace conglomerate. "We lack a national figure like Stokely Carmichael." Rap Brown...
...France, the Thermidorian period ended with the establishment of the five-man Directory late in 1795, after the suppression of a public revolt by a young Corsican officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon himself seized power in a 1799 coup d'etat...
...power and perquisites of the U.S. presidency, some of the problems of ordinary citizens necessarily follow a man into the White House. Like living within one's income, and keeping up the payments on the mortgage...
Unchallenged Thesis. The postponement, of course, did nothing to halt his unofficial trial by popular opinion. Kennedy foresaw that his petition for delay would prompt talk about a "Kennedy power play" and "wealth and influence thwarting justice." But his lawyers increasingly feared that the inquest, under Judge Boyle's terms, could take on some aspects of a kangaroo court. Boyle opened the inquest to 103 reporters and denied that the hearing represented an accusatory proceeding. Hence, ruled Boyle, lawyers for the witnesses-including Kennedy and the others who attended the Chappaquiddick cookout-had no right to cross-examine...
...Turner family of Eastern Kentucky's Breathitt County, politics comes as naturally as breathing. Ervine Turner, who died last year after a 40-year career as state senator, school superintendent and circuit judge, first became a power in the mountainous area when he brought Breathitt the benefits of the New Deal. His death did nothing to weaken his family's Snopesian hold on the county. His wife Marie served as county school superintendent for 38 years until her retirement last June, and still remains president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, the county seat. Their son John...