Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Nixon had given his final, formal approval to resume the bombing, however, he learned that his counsel John Dean had begun to talk to the Watergate prosecutors. Nixon knew that the renewed bombing would spur violent criticism in Congress, in the country at large and all over the world. He also knew that Dean's testimony was going to make life difficult for him. Loath to deal with simultaneous severe criticism on two major fronts, he rescinded his approval of the raids. The North Vietnamese infringements continued unchecked...
...terrorists quickly identified themselves as supporters of West Germany's infamous Baader-Meinhof gang, a band of leftist extremists who have been held responsible for a succession of violent crimes. Their demands: the immediate release of 26 fellow terrorists currently held in West German jails, including Gang Leaders Ulrike Meinhof, 40, and Andreas Baader, 31, who are scheduled to stand trial May 21 in Stuttgart on charges of murder and grand larceny. The raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign...
...until the Second World War that the French colony really began to crumble, and the struggle for Vietnamese independence took on a more violent form. And almost from the time that Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam Independence League--the Viet Minh--liberated Vietnam from its collapsing Japanese occupiers, with a Declaration that began by quoting the American Declaration of Independence, the United States did what it could to hold back this struggle...
...alternatives that do not produce great disparities in wealth and alienation as well as corporate tyranny, letting the examples themselves excite the vast majority of Americans to force entrenched capital out of the driver's seat through the legal system. What he's talking about is a non-violent workers' takeover of industry, a takeover that would provide the social basis for a political democracy in this country that has been lacking since Jefferson's lament about the corporations...
...minute address, Ford said that violent crimes and "crime in high places" have prevented the country from providing the "domestic tranquility" promised in the preamble of the Constitution...