Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, such tolerance and sloppy thinking has been largely responsible for the turmoil and suffering and disgraceful actions now taking place at all levels of our society. And the Communists couldn't be happier. Because they realize that a free and civilized society can exist only in an atmosphere of morality, where mores and traditions are observed and cherished. Sex scandals in government, perversion in the arts, widespread permissiveness, attacks on the family, dirty dress and speech, drugs, lack of manners, exotic and occult philosophies, these make up the kind of world we find ourselves in today. The Communists...
...blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In three bitter days and nights of wild rioting and skirmishes between club-wielding, stone-throwing blacks and heavily armed police, at least 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured; only a handful of the victims were white. The turmoil spread to at least seven other segregated black townships surrounding South Africa's largest industrial city. At week's end the violence subsided, although police remained on guard in Soweto and other neighboring townships...
...usually sedate French National Assembly has lately become a scene of turmoil and dissension. Cabals of Deputies huddle up and down the splendid baronial halls. Ministers discuss the latest parliamentary tricks. The visitors' gallery is packed. Reason for all the drama: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's proposed capital gains...
...what the authors believed was a more other-direction orientation of post-World War II middle-class youth. While finding fault with both extremes, they appeared to be particularly concerned lest the balance shift too far towards other-directional orientation (as they later implied it did in the turmoil of the 1960s...
Beame is naturally reluctant to drive the unions into a corner that will force still more labor turmoil. Strikes next month would be a particular embarrassment because the Democratic National Convention takes place in Manhattan during the week of July 12. There are also purely local political considerations. Though he has been regarded as a lame duck, Beame has regained his confidence and is now considering running for a second term next year. To do so he will need labor support...