Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individualism of nations." He thought the workers of Germany would side with Russia after the Revolution of 1917, even though the two countries were still at war. The successors of Lenin and then Stalin seemed surprised when frustration with the Communist system merged with anti-Russian sentiment to help trigger such traumatic events as the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Polish Solidarity movement...
...sixties, Eddie Adams photographed Nguyen Ngoc Loan as he pulled a trigger inches from a Vietcong prisoner's head. Images of war's ravages in the Middle East, the deadly effects of the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India, and the Challenger explosion have all been presented to the public eye. Our heart strings have been pulled, but our limits may have been reached. Larry Burrows, a war photographer who covered the Vietnam War, said it best: "What's the hardest thing of all? It's to keep feeling. Yet if you feel too much... you'd crack...
...obverse double, embracing the mess and confusion Marion has spent her life avoiding. We never learn what troubles Hope. She is more device than character. But the chase diverts Marion still further from her habitual paths, opening her to chance encounters with figures from her past, who in turn trigger memories and fantasies that make her see how she has ducked life's embrace. She has turned a best friend into a bitterly disappointed acquaintance; pregnancy into abortion; what might have been a passionate, lifesaving affair into an occasion for romantic...
Newspaper newsrooms are often unhappy places, but few are regularly likened to Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. Such were the favored metaphors among staffers of the New York Times under the iron grip of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal. With a hair-trigger temper and skin as thin as a sheet of newsprint, Rosenthal was known to be convivial one moment, then, at the slightest miscue, fly into a rage. Those who unquestioningly did his bidding thrived; many of those who crossed him made their careers outside the hallowed offices at Times Square...
Blechner's Jewishness is slowly surfacing in his solitary life on six acres at the foot of Snake Mountain. "I couldn't flush it out," he says. He wants a family, and he knows that children trigger the heritage question. "What are you going to do, send them to the Congregational church?" he asks. But he has more immediate concerns: "How do you meet a nice Jewish girl up here? There are no Jewish singles weekends. Are there women living similar life-styles? Whom do you relate to up here about that...