Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current shift in the national mood, I'm assuming that some rather ugly impulses have been liberated." Says Archie Epps III, dean of undergraduates at Harvard and a black: "In such a climate, an individual who has harbored resentment is more likely to feel free to threaten minorities because, once again, it is respectable." Among the moves that Chandler and Epps feel encourage racism are an antibusing measure in Congress and calls to repeal the Voting Rights...
Anderson, among the most powerful players on the pro circuit, was out-maneuvered by controlled volleys and well-disguised winners, the tactics Desaulniers used to such success to wreck his college opponents. Continually thrown off-balance and forced to anticipate too soon, Anderson could not threaten Desaulniers' command of the match at any point...
Smith termed the charge against him "outrageous, ludicrous," adding, "It's not my style to threaten anybody." Referring to Gardin's allegation, Lee said this week, "Those things would never have been said by me." One University source said Gardin was called before Lee because he had had a slew of unauthorized absences from work, and "a checkered work history...
...approach to the analysis of the Black condition "has benefitted those least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the underclass." Moreover, we are now to believe that to struggle against racism and class exploitation is to use the Black underclass as a political base from which to "threaten--and extract concessions from the society." Such analysis leads one to assume, that if we did not struggle for better jobs and more equality that the Black underclass would be in a much better condition today...
...Saturday night, November 8th, a group of women and their supporters will march to "take back the night". This effort is an expression of women's anger at the rape and other forms of violence which daily threaten their lives. Every woman is a victim of rape, because every woman must structure her life so as to avoid it. The powerlessness which women feel when walking alone at night reflects the powerlessness which women experience in every aspect of our society...