Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will put them over." So said Joseph Rhodes Jr., 23, before setting off for a hearing last week at Kent State University in Ohio, the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes in the recent history of campus disorder. Rhodes was referring to Richard Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, of which he is the only student member. By "oh-deeing"?a hophead term for a drug overdose?he meant that the other commissioners have been startled by the fervor of the students and the severity of the country's reaction to collegiate violence...
...hurt. Today there is a return to conservatism in America. A majority of people cherish the forms of this society, but are fearful that they will be destroyed. Today they see nothing to make them hope. We are still in the Viet Nam War, and we still have social unrest...
They are the first of 400 youths scheduled to participate in a new program that has brought the military into the problems of the inner city. In late spring, a Marine Corps colonel attended a meeting concerning summer unrest held in Mayor Joseph Alioto's office and offered the Corps and its former survival training school near Lake Tahoe as a fresh-air refuge from the streets. San Francisco policemen recruited the 13-to 15-year-old campers, including some they had previously arrested for purse snatching and car theft. Businessmen put up the money for food, the Marines...
Testifying before the President's Commission on Campus Unrest last week, Columbia University's President-elect William J. McGill estimated that as many as 50% of all collegians now belong to "an alienated culture, hostile to science and technology, which is growing at a very rapid pace." McGill's solution is to speed up education and get collegians into full-time jobs faster?an effort to promote earlier independence...
...BOLSHEVIKS reluctance to abandon immediately their methods of wartime governance in turn, led to a mass of strikes and rural unrest that nearly brought the regime to its knees. As winter set in, supply levels in the major cities approached subsistence levels and the populace began blaming the party for all the misfortune. Labor protest crippled Petrograd in February 1921, and peasant revolt flared as never before. The government deftly maneuvered itself out of these crises but nevertheless felt the blow, and at a party congress in March, Lenin finally introduced the agricultural liberalization that was to become the cornerstone...