Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in full cry last week, and their bombast was directed at Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity. In a 104-page court order, Garrity produced his final plan for desegregating the city's troubled schools-a decision that promises, at the least, to keep Boston in turmoil for months to come...
...intimated that the U.S. may recognize the government of North Viet Nam before long, and he disclosed that the U.S. has made a number of recent diplomatic overtures to Cuba. With some heat, he denied reports that he was about to resign: "To leave in a period of turmoil, when people are looking for a sense of direction and when foreign nations are watching us-I think it would not be a service to the country...
HUBERT HUMPHREY, 63, Democratic Senator from Minnesota and Lyndon Johnson's Vice President: "There's great sadness when you see the collapse of part of a country, when you see the incredible suffering, turmoil and panic which gripped so many. We shouldn't feel, though, that we've let anyone down. No outside force can save a country that lacks the will or political leadership. What we've learned is that there aren't American answers for every problem in the world. We made judgments about that part of the world based...
Dean Rosovsky, who wrote in his recent "Letter to the Faculty" that "we are near the end of a turbulent decade" when "social and political issues frequently dominated academic discourse," says that "one can't ignore the effects of the turmoil this university went through in 1969-70. A lot of faculty members lost a great deal of enthusiasm for dealing with the student body...
...experience." But for all its profound repercussions for the rest of the world, Tuesday's triumph belongs to the Vietnamese, first and foremost. To focus on the repercussions would be perverse, in the way that it was sick to talk of the Vietnam War as an American tragedy, creating turmoil and division in the United States, while Vietnam endured an American onslaught and a barrage of bombs unprecedented in the history of the world...