Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miners of Appalachia, Miller has become a symbol of new possibilities in their lives. Like Miller, they are mainly of Anglo-Saxon stock. On the whole, they are proud, patriotic, sometimes violent and yet often deeply religious. For them, the mines are generally an alternative to grinding rural poverty. Those who do not flee to the city love the raw, knobby hill country and the sense of freedom from urban constrictions and pressures...
...twirl, somersault, even leap into the audience, without strangling himself. Nor need he worry about accidental electrocution. No laughing matter that. Because of the touching of frayed wires or the shorting out of cables caught in puddles during rainy open-air concerts, many musicians have been jolted by violent charges, and one was killed-Les Harvey, lead guitarist with Stone the Crows. Aside from mobility and safety, Hartman reports that his stomach contributes to the sound ("The abdomen is the most resonant part of the body"), an unexpected sensation he regards as a gratifying trip...
...hotel, the maid gets hysterical. She attacks France, screaming "Dirty, dirty Jew!"--the jealous rage of a rejected woman is inextricably mixed with the underlying anti-Semitism of the European peasant. But here jealousy predominates. Her anti-Semitism would not have come to the surface in such a violent way if it hadn't been the channel for other resentments, just as Hitler needed German's economic and political frustrations as well as her endemic anti-Semitism to make "the Jewish question" so powerful a part of his regime...
...thus winters there have been unusually bitter. Conversely, in such normally chilly regions as New England and Scandinavia, winters have been uncharacteristically warm because the vortex has pulled up warm air from the south. At times, great air masses of differing temperature and humidity can collide, creating unusually violent storms, like last spring's tornadoes in the Midwest...
...CAMBRIDGE POLICE Department desperately needs to improve its relationship with the community and should act now to rectify a deplorable situation. Complaints of police brutality and misconduct continue to rise each year as public trust and faith in local law enforcement officials declines steadfastly. At the same time violent crimes have increased here, in part due to haphazard police protection in certain low income neighborhoods...