Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit of protest leaped from country to country like an ideological variant of Hong Kong flu. Protest marches, sit-ins and riots attacked every kind of structure, society and regime...
...Pakistan, mobs cried "Death to Ayub!" in protest against their President's neglect of long-festering economic and social problems. Germany, Italy and Japan were struck by the plague...
Nowhere was protest more prevalent or potent than in the U.S. Though the ghettos were spared the major racial holocausts of previous years, Martin Luther King's assassination ignited disturbances in 168 cities and towns and brought arsonists to within three blocks of the White House. Nearly everywhere, black citizens demanded the right to run their own communities, their own welfare programs, their own schools; and a growing number of militant Negro groups armed to protect themselves from what they considered an incurably hostile white society...
...wonder, then, that those on earth saw it as a beleaguered battlefield -not, as Astronaut Lovell described it from his vantage point nearly a quarter of a million miles away, as "a grand ovation to the vastness of space." Sated with violence, sick of crisis, weary of politics and protest alike, the U.S.-and the rest of the world-needed few excuses to look to the heavens. As the year waned, they shifted their gaze to earth's placid, lifeless satellite-as Sir Richard Burton described it in 1880, "A ruined world, a globe burnt out, a corpse upon...
...happened to set out on their mission against an Israeli airliner from Lebanon-but could have started from anywhere. In any case, they and their extremist colleagues are now largely operating independently of all Arab governments. The U.S. State Department called in the ranking Israeli diplomat in Washington to protest the raid "in the strongest possible terms...