Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greeks will eventually rejoin NATO and reconcile themselves to geographic partition and loose federation of the two communities-perhaps the most sensible solution after all for the island that once gave birth, or so mythology would have it, to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Whatever Athens decides, however, the turmoil on Cyprus is far from over. The Greek Cypriots, with their large majority, are not likely to allow the Turks to retain exclusive control of the important port of Famagusta and a third of the island without a fight. The Greeks waged guerrilla warfare for four years against the British...
...nearly two years, Watergate had divided and confused the American people. Now there was a unifying mood: relief that the doubt and turmoil were over. But the actual announcement came as an emotional anticlimax to many people. As one anti-Nixon man in Wilmington, Del., put it, "This just doesn't feel as good as I thought it would." On the other hand, many Nixon supporters quickly became resigned to abdication. "It's sort of like an inoculation," declared New Hampshire Forester Robert Breck, who had voted for tickets carrying Nixon's name in eleven elections...
...acting style he has extrapolated for himself out of his own memory and his great talent is a reserved, tentative thing that depends on his stores of introspection and secret turmoil. Newer actors, younger ones, are already doing something a little different. Robert De Niro (in Mean Streets), Richard Dreyfuss (in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) are working in a broader, larger style-no more daring than Nicholson's but more aggressive and open...
...country's largest private banks, with 31 branches chiefly in the Rhineland city of Cologne. Last week Gördel and thousands of other Herstatt depositors had their dreams, and quite possibly their savings, wiped out in the most disastrous German banking collapse since the turmoil...
Some journalists may have overplayed the turmoil of those years, but the press could hardly have avoided reporting the disquieting events of the '60s and early '70s, which represented the deepest divisions in U.S. society since the Depression and perhaps the Civil War. Increasingly, audiences have confused the reportage and analysis provided by newsmen with the events themselves, mistaking the messenger for the message. Post Publisher Katharine Graham quotes Shakespeare: "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell...