Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bok was appointed to succeed then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 in 1970, the campus was mired in turmoil. The previous year, students occupying University Hall had been forced out and beaten by police called in by Pusey...
When Bok was appointed to succeed then-President Nathan M. Pusey in 1970, the campus was mired in turmoil. The previous year, students occupying University Hall had been forced out and beaten by police called in by Pusey...
...suit. Voicing fears that the country was headed inexorably toward civil war, Jovic said he was "not ready to go along with such decisions that are leading to the breakup of the country." For his part, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic found his grip on power seriously weakened by the turmoil. With the prospect that the army might yet impose a crackdown, Yugoslavia was left teetering between hope and fear...
...Russian and Islamic architecture; she married an architectural historian and went as far afield as Samarkand. Occasionally her work strikes an apocalyptic, Kandinsky-like note. One example is the great Painterly Construction of 1920, with its jagged black shapes and whirling cones of force playing across a landscape in turmoil. But generally the keel of feeling is even, the track straight as an arrow. Here was a determined young painter following her nose, with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling...
Some military and intelligence officers believe the U.S. should send a strong signal to discourage Soviet backsliding and ready plans in case it occurs. At a minimum, says National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, "given . . . the turmoil in the Soviet Union, this is not the time to decide that there's a completely new era and a U.S. presence can be removed" from Europe. Pentagon and CIA officials also have begun a careful evaluation of plans to redeploy units from the gulf. Some warships previously bound for home ports may be delayed. Officials hint that ground troops normally based in Europe...