Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow and other Soviet cities with large Jewish communities, the education tax has created a mood of hopelessness and panic, compounded by the arrest of about 50 Jewish leaders and a spate of anti-Semitic articles in the Soviet press. The hopes inspired by the departure of 40,000 Soviet Jews for Israel in the past three years have been replaced by fear that the exodus will now come to a virtual halt. Nearly half a million Russian Jews may be stranded without jobs, since they are usually fired when they apply to leave the country. While the Israeli government...
...CURRENT SPATE of films starring, written and directed by blacks is filling urban movie houses and treating ethnic audiences to fantasy visions previously only colored white. Machismo, even in its white variety, is a hideous subject for glorification. But the black supermen in these movies roister about the contemporary cityscape like hyper Sam Spades without the Hammett moral sense. Sweetback or Shaft are totally ruthless people, oppressed by whites but equally disgusted by the lack of effectiveness of black community and cultural leaders. They are agents who wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas...
...recurring crises, European governments are erecting ever stricter controls on the flow of capital across national boundaries. The most recent furor, caused by Britain's decision to unhook the pound from a fixed value and let it fetch whatever the market will bring, has brought on yet another spate of regulations. Their purpose is understandable: to keep out the flood of homeless, speculative cash -much of it in irredeemable dollars -that can make a betting game out of currency values and disrupt nations' economies in the process. The growing danger is that the proliferating rules will hamper normal...
...nation wearily viewing the discouraging spectacle of two Houses of 500 willful politicians bartering to arrive at laws that are supposed to be best for the country. It seems to take a national emergency to goad Congress into sustained action; the last legislatures to produce anything like a spate of successful laws were the first New Deal Congress (1933) and the post-J.F.K. (1964-65) Congress...
...Seattle last November, collected a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes, coolly bailed out as the plane flew on toward Reno, and was never caught. Immortalized in song and on sweatshirts, Cooper has inspired nearly half a dozen imitators, all of whom have failed. But a new spate of plane snatchings last week seemed to stem from the more recent exploits of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, who came the closest to succeeding since the Cooper caper...