Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alleged dissident Korean from Japan tried to assassinate Park during a public rally. The bullets struck Park's wife instead. She was rushed dying to a hospital while Park, emerging from behind a bullet-proof shield, went on with his speech. Afterward there was a great anti-Japanese uproar, and, on September 9, 32 patriots lopped off fingers publicly in Seoul with meat cleavers and sent them wrapped in a Korean flag to then Japanese premier Kakuei Tanaka. Newsmen soon discovered however that those "patriots" were convicts who had been released from jail to perform this act. The government...
...political passion was anti-clericalism. Once again--in her sixtieth year--she became "the political clarion of a rising generation," Barry writes. One of her plays, Villemer, denouncing the clergy's political influence that might one day explode "in a vast plot against social and individual freedom" created an uproar in Paris. Literally thousands of students, Barry claims, mobbed the theatre and "escorted her home to the cries of 'Long live George Sand! Down with the clericalists!'" Several students even attempted to unhitch the horses from her carriage to pull it themselves...
Tough Wellesley defense, combined with sloppy Radcliffe passing, added up to a thriller for the extremely vocal Wellesley fans. The incredible uproar that arose from the peanut gallery with every Wellesley triumph fizzled the 'Cliffe's momentum time and again and helped Wellesley pull close whenever defeat seemed imminent...
...integration. In a statement last week it warned: "Continual disregard for the law will have serious consequences. The government cannot allow organizations, whoever they are, to take the law into their own hands." Unofficially, however, the government is leery of taking on the Catholic Church, particularly after the international uproar about the Soweto rioting. Said one government official: "We're a pariah as it is. We don't want a quarrel with the Pope as well...
...uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic...