Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of Tupelo, torn between sheer incredulity and cold fear, do not find their situation funny. Tupelo (pop. 26,500) managed to tiptoe all the way through the '60s without any civil rights trouble. Ever since spring, though, local blacks have been boycotting stores, first to protest the failure of the city to fire two white policemen accused of beating a black prisoner, then, when the two resigned, to demand more jobs. And here is the Ku Klux Klan threatening a rally and cross-burning outside town on the very day that the United League of North Mississippi...
...rollicking boomtown. Life is calmer now. The construction workers have left, and the tanker trade has created lucrative permanent jobs. Valdez has a modern high school to show for its troubles and a small, gleaming new hospital to serve its 4,500 inhabitants. Doubtless in response to environmentalists' protest, the eight-member consortium that runs the terminal takes great care to maintain a freshly scrubbed, spill-conscious image. Sea lions play in the water alongside the piers, salmon and herring run in season, and 24-hour emergency crews stand by to contain spills with floating booms, chemicals and scooping...
Those kinds of complaints, fair or not, gave powerful impetus to Proposition 13. Whether Californians will regret their protest remains to be seen. Curiously, a Los Angeles Times poll after the balloting showed that 70% of those who supported 13 thought they would get by without any reduction in services. Many were interested simply in sending the government a message. The poll also showed that 22% felt the government provided too many unnecessary services. When asked which services they would be most willing to see cut, 69% said welfare...
...child who wins too often emerges "with an overly extended, overly grand notion of its power." But a child who loses too many battles "emerges from its second birth with a pervasive sense of humiliation and self-doubt." If so, it will develop into a compliant child whose protest may emerge late as bedwetting, foolish behavior or theft...
Policyholders protest that companies cancel and kick up rates...