Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation last week welcomed the freed hostages back from their 444 days of captivity with an orgy of emotion. Yellow ribbons were tied to virtually everything that could not or would not resist: trees, lampposts, TV cameras, trumpets, drums, pretty girls, the hostages' homes and public buildings, including the White House. Parades wound through Washington, New York City, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Diego and Columbia, S.C. Others will follow this week, in cities and towns where former hostages make their homes...
...some veteran campaign reporters by their first names. The journalists responded with unfailing politeness; Jeremiah O'Leary of the Washington Star even gently corrected the President when he said "Mediterranean" instead of "Caribbean." One correspondent did manage to break the sound barrier, but charmingly; Californian Reagan could not resist calling on a Spanish-speaking correspondent who shouted "?por favor!" Reagan left many questions unanswered, but most of the reporters accepted his explanation: "I've only been here nine days...
...fuss is apparently going to last forever. Fortunately, it does sometimes fizzle down to a pleasantly inaudible buzz. In fact, the country has enjoyed just such a lull in the years since Southern politicians stopped exhuming John Calhoun's interposition doctrine to resist desegregation. But now the lull is over. The oldest free-floating political issue in U.S. history is flaring up again, fueled by accumulated resentment at that familiar, all-purpose ogre: the huge, cumbersome, inefficient, ever busy Federal Government...
...Resist Freezing...
...drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers observed a nationwide job boycott ordered by Solidarity, the independent union federation. Across Poland last week, workers once again served notice that they would bitterly resist any attempt to roll back the rights they had won through a summer of crippling strikes...