Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the commandos moved into the headquarters of the leftist military-police; in the Shootout that followed, two commandos, one military policeman and six civilians were killed. Portugal must be credited, though, with a highly civilized form of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary politics. Since the April 1974 revolution, despite intense turmoil, fewer than 20 people have been killed...
TACT, or Truth About Civil Turmoil, "very successful in exposing the Communist hands behind the Civil Rights movement...
Black Moon has the clinical, slightly oppressive tone of dream data being recorded and examined. Freudian symbolism proliferates. The war between the sexes suggests the girl's adolescent turmoil over her own sexual identity. One notes-one can hardly avoid-the preponderance of traditional Freudian sexual metaphors: snakes, clocks, the horn of the unicorn. Add to this the curdled maternalism of the old invalid and the nearly unreachable sustenance of that outsize glass of milk, and Black Moon seems like a long case study...
Once all these political forces are unleashed, Spain could face a prolonged period of turmoil. Yet during the weeks of Franco's illness most Spaniards seemed determined to go on with business as usual-except for an unusual interest in radio bulletins and newspaper headlines. Last week the bullrings and soccer stadiums were packed, as were the tapas bars of old Madrid. Late-hour diners filled restaurants, feasting on steaming plates of garlic chicken and stuffed squid swimming in its own black ink. Long queues formed outside cinemas featuring The Towering Inferno, and a Beethoven concert series played...
...world will be closely watching Spain for any sign of the "Portuguese malaise," the chaos and political turmoil that have plagued Lisbon since the overthrow of its dictatorship 18 months ago. Yet contagion seems unlikely. Thanks in part to Franco, who in the 1960s presided over the country's most rapid transformation in its history, Spain today has a much better base for a peaceful transformation to a democracy than its Iberian neighbor...