Word: reformist
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CERTAINLY, we honor Martin Luther King for concrete reasons. Although many individuals were responsible for the great victories of the 1960s, it was King to whom the nation looked during the successful reformist phase of the movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Protest, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were all major accomplishments for King, as he coordinated the downfall of Jim Crow segregation...
Bond embodies that turn to the right. An aristocrat whose grandfather made a family fortune selling fire-resistant brick, the Princeton-educated, preppie-looking Bond entered Republican politics young and in 1972 became Missouri's first Republican Governor in 32 years. He was then considered a moderate, and his reformist notions and support of the Equal Rights Amendment alienated some G.O.P. conservatives. Defeated for re-election in 1976, he came back as a conservative and won a second term four years later. During the Senate campaign, Bond got an unintentional boost when Woods ran a TV spot that pictured...
...abduction of an innocent American journalist tends to project Gorbachev as being more similar to his bloated predecessors than to the reformist image to which he aspires." said Cline...
...quality of the story may be judged from the paragraph: "When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...
Tanks arrived. When helicopters from the 15th strike wing of the air force began circling overhead, it looked as if the reformist rebellion was all over. If the choppers had fired into the Enrile-Ramos headquarters, the reformers would have been helpless. But then the choppers landed, and out came airmen waving white flags and giving the "L" sign for laban (fight), a symbol of the opposition. Suddenly the crowd, realizing that the air force was now defecting, went wild...