Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revolutionary War, many colonists-and not only Tories-feared that if rebellion came, "the bands of society would be dissolved, the harmony of the world confounded, and the order of nature subverted." Crime and lawlessness would surely accompany any challenge to authority, especially one involving a resort to arms...
...political consensus, mobilize for collective action, and control crime: the public manipulation of reputations and the creation of a powerful nexus of human interdependence. Majority opinion not only dominated political decision making, but controlled most public and much private conduct as well. This is why there was such frequent resort to humiliation as a penalty. Stocks, pillory, and tar and feathers were effective because the opinion of one's townsmen was so important. The colonists paid a price for government by communal consensus: there was not much privacy, and what we now regard as liberties of conscience often existed...
...wrestling is that the rules and the referee seem to end up hindering the hero instead of protecting him from evil. The referee always remains oblivious when the bad guy uses a foreign object or a stranglehold. What often happens therefore is that the hero will have to resort to dirty tricks to gain a victory. The insidious effect of professional wrestling is not that it extolls brutality and violence, although it certainly does that, but that it promotes the abandoning of fairness and restraint to achieve personal ends. Bruno grinds the chain into Koloff's face, then strangles...
During the tense week, King Hussein sought assurances in Washington that the U.S. would restrain the Israelis if Syrian military intervention in Lebanon proved necessary as a last resort. The U.S. made no commitments, in part because relations between Washington and Jerusalem are once again slightly strained. Although Ambassador to the United Nations William Scranton vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression on the West Bank (TIME, April 5), Israel was still furious over the cool tenor of Scranton's maiden speech, in which he described the occupation of East Jerusalem as "interim and provisional...
...mountain resort Aley, Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt one day last week sat in his temporary headquarters, directing the siege of the nearby Christian stronghold of Kahale. Suddenly, a mortar shell whistled through the air and exploded 50 yds. away with an ear-splitting blast. Aides jumped to their feet; one suggested running for cover. "Shells like that don't do much damage," said Jumblatt calmly. He remained unruffled when an assistant rushed in to tell him that the explosion had damaged his black Mercedes. Replied he coolly: "We shouldn't park our cars over on that side of the street...