Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then in Elsies River near Cape Town-crowds of rioting youths clashed with police on three successive nights. Barrages of stone throwing were answered with baton charges, volleys of tear gas and gunfire. At least 40 people were shot dead by police, and hundreds more were injured. The spasm of riots and violence was the worst since the country's urban black rebellion of 1976. That upheaval, which remains seared in the consciousness of white and black alike, cost 618 lives; the South African government at the time laconically described it as a mere series of "disturbances...
...somebody developed a plan with a good possibility of success, I would be urging a confrontational course to demonstrate that you cannot humiliate the U.S. with impunity. But I would oppose some spasm that doesn't succeed. I would not take a step just to placate public opinion...
...better off in a few years if the president imposed a hefty gasoline tax; however, they say he can't because of "political" considerations. Carter has opted for a World War II-style rearmament drive that will only accelerate inflation. He could just as easily have channeled the spasm of popular support that started with the taking of the American hostages in Tehran and has continued through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan into a crash conservation program...
...your Harvard-supplied shelves. Time to be nice to all those people who took notes in the classes you slept through. Time to blame your parents for entertaining you over vacation, instead of letting you work. Time to talk about taking exams before Christmas and then realizing in a spasm of insight that you would fail. Time to put in your first appearance at breakfast...