Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turbulent has been the long-running strike of mineworkers against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. that it recalls the Hatfield-McCoy feud in the same region, around the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Now the conflict, involving some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...
...Harvard, reaction to the new building is ranging from approval to outrage. John Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories...
...elections to choose members of the new Parliament. Some 625,000 pupils staged school boycotts, scores were arrested, and newly enfranchised voters showed little interest in the whole proceeding: only 30% of the eligible coloreds and 20% of the eligible Indians bothered to vote. The trouble grew uglier two weeks ago, when South Africa's new constitution went into effect and Prime Minister P. (for Pieter) W. Botha, 68, was chosen as the country's powerful new Executive President. Rioting swept the black town ships in an area known as the Vaal triangle, to the south and east...
Goode shrugs off such mild taunts and ignores uglier ones. Goode says that in Philadelphia, unlike Chicago (where bitter racial overtones preceded Harold Washington's victory), the fact that he is black is unimportant in the campaign. "I think I've transcended race by focusing on the issues," he asserts...
...fewer than 2,000 men, women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier...