Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...F.D.R. was-our-last-real-president, and all that." Over the years students have grown to marvel at her intellectual prowess and to respect her academic demands, but when it came to political actions mutual misunderstanding has resulted. Looking back of Shklar's attitude towards the strike and general unrest on campus during the past several years, a student explains that "she thought we should stop playing around and get on with our work, and she would tell us that when she was a student she had neither time nor desire for such goings-on, that students then couldn...
...background is an unstable mixture of war and political unrest. Gandhi has just declared a policy of noncooperation with the British war effort. Now the Japanese are invading India, assisted by an Indian army formed of turncoat prisoners...
...finds expression in its leader and is not restricted to any dogma, with an awareness of all that is now and topical in the world and with good motives for assimilating it...Hence the battle of minds, in the open or in secret, as perhaps nowhere else, a constant unrest, compelling the individual almost daily to take a stand on profound problems...
...suicide seemed out of all proportion to the comparatively minor unrest at the school, but it did have a certain brutal eloquence. On the day last week that Cabell's death was announced over the school's public address system, some blacks in the cafeteria mistakenly thought a group of whites were applauding his death. The fighting started all over again...
...instead of a parliamentary system of government-with Bhutto as a supremely powerful President. He promises to lift martial law and restore democracy "well before the end of the year." But in the meantime, he told Correspondent Coggin, "martial law serves as a psychological deterrent to other forms of unrest." Bhutto is thus relying on martial law-and on the tough Tikka Khan-to hold the country together...