Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core members, it is widely believed to have been behind the bombings of the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the Gulf Oil headquarters in Pittsburgh in 1974, among other criminal acts...
Crime. From 1960 to 1975, the rate of violent crime in the U.S. tripled, from 160.9 to 481.5 incidents per 100,000 people; by 1976 the rate had declined to 459.6. Among industrialized countries, the U.S. had by far the highest homicide rate: 9.8 per 100,000 people in 1973. (In 1976, though the book does not go that far, the rate dropped...
...fulfilling a vow he had made to himself (see interview), Sadat prayed in Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest places. Then the son of Ishmael stood before the sons of Isaac in the Israeli Knesset and formally declared that the deep, violent enmity between them had somehow passed...
Before Sadat flew to Israel, the Middle East appeared to be on another of its terrible swings toward war, another violent spasm in the tragic politics of the region. But by one act, the Egyptian President has broken through the seemingly predestined cycle of hatred and killing. Not since the founding of Israel in 1948 has the will for peace in the Middle East been stronger. If his specific initiative proves unfruitful, there remains a danger that both sides might once again gear up for war. And yet it seems unlikely that the past's bitter patterns of stagnation...
...been removed from the halls, and Southie students are at peace. Said one kid: "After a while, you get to know them. You just get along." In Chicago, one of the nation's most stubbornly segregated cities, a new busing program drew angry words this fall but no violent resistance. Once citizens took to the streets to denounce court rulings. Now a Miami Dolphins fan took to the sky to protest the injudiciousness of a National Football League referee whose early whistle on a fumble cost the local heroes a playoff spot. NFL ... BAD CALL, the skywriter spelled...