Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most Greeks believe that the U.S. favored Turkey in the early days of the crisis, tacitly approving Turkish intervention. In retaliation, American cars were burned and American tourists abused, their cameras sometimes being snatched away and smashed on the ground. Athens' Constitution Square was the scene of occasionally violent anti-American demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed to have a sobering effect, however, and Caramanlis deplored "this sad event," promising to suppress acts of violence and anarchism in Greece itself...
...another. Sometimes he plays at war; in Los Angeles vets often gather at the burned-out remains of an amusement park at Venice pier to stage mock battles, often using shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days and then begin to experience violent "flashbacks" to his war experiences. One vet in Casper, Wyo., who had accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children. In Flint, Mich., an Army vet was so devastated by his Viet Nam experience that he spent his days doing little more...
Ironically, the shooting is likely to bolster Park's domestic support. "It was a sobering experience for Korea," said an intellectual in Seoul. The attack buttressed Park's claims that his government is threatened by violent opposition. Even more, the national mourning over the death of Mrs. Park created a wave of popular sympathy for the President that he has never before enjoyed...
...outset, a wealthy and evil man named Farquarson lies dying in his mansion in Lake Forest, Ill. Years ago he railroaded his redundant wife into a mental institution, where she had a son by another inmate. Said inmate, a violent man named Helenowski, vowed deadly vengeance on the world. As the novel begins he has escaped and is busy killing people...
...Constitution and the political processes that it nourished proved themselves tough and enduring. Without disorder, confusion or even excessive bitterness, we have quietly forced Mr. Nixon out of office and quietly installed Mr. Ford. This is a revolution. In most countries of the globe it would be a violent revolution, but in the U.S. it is peaceful and legal. It is in deed constitutional revolution, for just as the founding fathers invented the constitutional convention as a legal method of altering or abolishing government and instituting a new one, they also devised the complex process of impeachment, resignation and succession...