Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back-to-school season began last week in an atmosphere of unwonted tranquillity. This year, in contrast to previous Septembers, early prospects were for relatively little turmoil from teacher strikes and demonstrations. In fact, school officials in most parts of the country were hopeful that the unusual calm in the nation's classrooms would prove to be long-lasting...
...widower, he moves first out of his West Side Manhattan apartment, which has fallen victim to urban renewal, and in with his son and family, who have a small suburban house. The household is in a state of operational turmoil, with rankling dinner-table conversation and fraternal loathing between Harry's two grandsons. Harry is not a burden here; even in the middle of brawls everyone is solicitous of him. The household quickly becomes a weight...
Population problems have been the most abiding concern of John D. III. He helped support Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger in the 1930s and in 1952 established the Population Council, which supports contraception research and family-planning programs around the globe. John D. III's concern over campus turmoil in the late '60s inspired his Task Force on Youth, set up to encourage and support projects in which the young can collaborate with the Establishment...
...example, the Soviet fleet might be tempted in a future crisis to blockade Israeli ports or protect the movements of Syrian and Egyptian warships from Israeli forces. What could be even more disruptive to East-West stability, Russia -despite détente-might dare to intervene in the turmoil in Yugoslavia that is expected to follow the death of the aging Josip Broz Tito. For the past three years NATO units (including Greeks and Turks) have held exercises in northern Greece to practice intercepting Warsaw Pact forces if they move through Bulgaria on their way to invade Yugoslavia. Now, with...
...Even during the turmoil on the college campuses, some of them came here because they wanted an education," says Navy Captain Ronald A. Campbell, who is in charge of recruiting and counseling potential midshipmen. As an added attraction, Annapolis offers a majors program in which midshipmen can earn bachelor's degrees in nonnaval fields as well as traditional areas such as electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering. West Point, which sends more than 70% of its graduates on to complete graduate school, does not offer a majors program, but it has liberalized its electives. Cadets...