Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest of many austerity moves to hold off devaluation, the Bank of France is expected to announce this week another increase in the country's discount rate, which has been raised over the past year from 3½% to 6%. Such belt tightening has already fanned social unrest. Across France last week, normally docile merchants closed down their shops in a one-day protest against high taxes. Some even took to the streets and battled riot police...
...fair chance that he may lose his post as party chief in the next few weeks. If he retains power, he risks more Catholic civil rights demonstrations unless he pushes for reforms, and action on those reforms almost certainly would bring extremist Protestant rioters to the streets. Continuing unrest might well spur British intervention, which in turn would produce a violent response from a goodly number of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 people. Indeed, the Marquess of Hamilton, a Unionist who sits in London's House of Commons, may not have been overstating the case when...
Candlelight Procession. The pattern of unrest in Pakistan had a familiar beginning in student demands for education reform, which sparked bloody rioting. By last October, however, when civil disorders began to erupt on a wide scale, the opposition to Ayub was pushing far more substantive complaints. One had to do with Ayub's system of "basic democracy," which was really little more than constitutional window dressing to ensure his stay in power. Another was the resentment of the people of East Pakistan, 55% of the divided country's population, over what they felt to be the neglect...
Many of her guinea pigs might challenge Sturtevant's personal ability to create change, but few have failed to sense the anxiety of which she speaks. It is a fundamental unrest that arises because a basic artistic philosophy-originally formulated by the pop artists-now produces increasingly sterile new work. None of the mutants of the virile genus popus-such as op or earthworks or photographic realism-seem sufficiently robust to beget new species in their turn...
...Disorders and fears of new and frightening dimensions stalk the corridors of many of our schools," declared the High School Principals Association of New York City in a recent urgent appeal to Mayor Lindsay and the board of education for help in controlling student unrest. Help is needed; the troubles that have been plaguing college campuses for the past few years are now beginning to infect high schools. Much of the strife seems to be a spontaneous eruption of purely racial antagonism, pitting black students against white students and white teachers, but more and more of it is being deliberately...