Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Arab reaction was negative, abusive and even violent. Libya broke relations with Egypt and demanded its expulsion from the Arab League. Radio Baghdad called the trip a "Pan-Arab catastrophe" and Sadat himself a traitor. Saiqa, the Syrian-backed Palestinian group vowed to assassinate Sadat for committing "the ugliest treason" in Arab history. Syria declared a day of mourning and lowered flags to half-staff. In Lebanon, where Syrian peace-keeping troops have forbidden protest demonstrations, the ban was lifted during Sadat's trip...
...York City Corrections Department did not classify the TV showing of The Godfather as a special event, but it turned into one. Just as the first segment of the four-part saga of the Corleone Mafia family began to get violent, the clock struck 10 p.m., lockup time in the city's jails. At the Queens House of Detention, 43 inmates protested and refused to go back into their cells, and extra guards had to be called to herd them...
...what PUMA interprets as the proper role of prostitutes. Weeks and several of the women at the Halloween party stated they have a right to be prostitutes, emphasizing the differences between themselves and women who commit several other crimes in addition to prostitution. Frank agrees, "There's nothing inherently violent about the sale of sex. There is something violent about illegal businesses...
...room overlooked a graveyard. Jerzy Kosinski, the author of the books punctuated with violent and bizarre death scenes, smiled...
...violent thunderstorm raged above St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 18, 1870, the bishops of the First Vatican Council adopted a decree that would alter Christian history. A Pope, they declared, is infallible when he defines doctrines of faith or morals ex cathedra (from his throne) and such dicta are "irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though...