Word: turmoil
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Neither the social nor the personal violence of the 1960s was a new feature of American life. Many historians consider the pre-Revolutionary period one of the most violent these shores have seen. Some of the turmoil, necessary for protest, had a point. Much more of it was pointless. Vigilantism, lynching, I cruel and sadistic i punishments were -common on the frontier. Backwoods ruffi-i ans as described in the journal of a Virginia tutor commonly engaged in "Kicking, Scratching, Pinching, Biting, Butting, Tripping, Throttling, Gouging, Cursing, Dismembering." Ratting and cockfighting were common diversions...
Professors contacted by The Crimson yesterday say they think Spain will not suffer major turmoil following the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but they predict Spain may become a constitutional republic...
...case. She seemed to have no idea of the gravity of her position." They said she often sat staring into space, ignoring questions they put to her, even when they repeated them several times. When they brought up her recent past, she was reduced "to tears and extreme emotional turmoil." They asked that she be removed from her cell in the San Mateo County jail to a private hospital (with the tab for her room and the necessary guards to be picked up by her father, Publisher Randolph Hearst...
...wife team ever: Hills' wife Carla is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Though Hills was backed by several powerful Wall Streeters, his philosophy is much the same as Garrett's. He probably will keep up the pressure for change that has thrown the securities industry into turmoil for the past five years. Says Hills of Garrett: "I know of no activity he's been engaged in that I disagree with...
...areas before fall rains cause spoilage. Despite the frantic efforts, the Soviet harvest is expected to fall at least 25 to 30 million tons short of this year's goal of 215 million tons-forcing the U.S.S.R. into foreign purchases that are jarring world markets and causing political turmoil in the U.S. (see THE NATION...