Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before South Boston High was closed down, the tension and acrimony in the classrooms had virtually brought learning to a halt. But what has generally been overlooked in the racial turmoil is that even in the best of times, the school has never given its students a particularly good education...
While an undergraduate, Lippmann helped found and became president of the Harvard Socialist Club, a large organization in the days of political turmoil prior to the First World...
...Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing no signs of either suspicion or alarm. Said Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua: "The current international situation is characterized by great disorder under heaven. Mankind always moves forward amidst turmoil...
...Nothing delights me so much," Nelson Rockefeller told the House Judiciary Committee, "as facing up to a complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." That pleasure was put to the test last week, as Rockefeller withstood the most intense interrogation of his career, covering almost every possible substantive issue and personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller...
...were left with a sense of defeat. The indecisive outcome of the war also uncovered a number of festering problems that had been obscured by the post-1967 boom. In the past year, Israel has been afflicted by a seemingly endless series of troubles: internal recriminations, personal mourning, governmental turmoil, economic malaise...