Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often served as a restraining influence in internal-security cases. One of the Nixon Administration's chief complaints about him was that he was not sufficiently aggressive in the use of wiretaps, electronic eavesdropping and the other "dirty tricks" of the trade in cases involving campus disorders, racial unrest and leftists in the antiwar movement. Hoover's standard in such cases was protective of his institution: he hesitated to undertake any investigation that would not be supported by popular opinion...
...bathtubs-five for every 100 people-are not even full size. The government made sure, however, that the buildings included police offices and cells for potential troublemakers, as well as electronically controlled doors that can be used to seal off any part of the building "in case of unrest." The black workers, who earn between $20 and $50 a month, will have to pay $8 a month for the privilege of sharing a room with three other people...
...Southeast Bronx, the unrest has spawned gangs with such sinistersounding names as the Savage Skulls, Young Sinners, Savage Nomads, Mongols and Reapers. Each clique has from 20 to 50 members ruled by a president, vice president and warlord. Their "colors," elaborate coats-of-arms stitched to the backs of their denim jackets, depict bloody skeletons and skulls, fire and lightning. Their arsenals include not only clubs, chains, knives and zip guns but also Molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and, say youth workers, hand grenades and machine guns...
...bypassed the seminary board and ordered seminary President John Tietjen to prevent Ehlen from teaching any Bible courses. "It was known all over the church that a man had denied the facticity of certain miracles. I felt I had to do something," Preus explains. "We've had constant unrest." Tietjen tossed the order back to the board, which met last week without resolving the impasse...
...controversy, Rogers C.B. Morton has tried to maintain a certain tone of orderly peace and quiet. "I'm not looking for headlines," he says. But headlines inevitably pursue a man who controls Interior's vast responsibilities, which range from cattle-grazing rights to offshore oil drilling to unrest among the Indians...