Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiritual factor doesn't have to do-with politics; it's a psychological factor." He believes that worries over China's precarious economic situation will impose a temporary lull on spiritual exhortation. But even in the later ranges of history he says, "swings will probably not be so violent as they were when Mao was at the helm. We're going to have many hands at the tiller now; so turns will take longer to develop, will be more obviously done, and they will be telegraphed in advance...
THESE TRAGIC EVENTS UNAVOIDABLY raise the question of American responsibility, not only for the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende government in 1973 at the hands of the Chilean armed forces, but also for the consolidation and expansion of DINA, whose operations now appear to extend far beyond the borders of Chile. In view of the bloody murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, it is imperative and legitimate that the U.S. government totally sever all diplomatic and political relations with the Chilean junta; stop all U.S., World Bank and all other international forms...
...this end, it can be hoped that the tragic and violent deaths of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt will mark the beginning of the end of the Chilean junta and the diminishing of the American imperialism which created it three years ago and continues to nourish it to this...
...like or was not useful. His view of himself and the world has been shaped in large part by a distrust of big money, power and government, the dedication to the heroic mythology of the Confederacy and its gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation, poverty, backwardness and-above all-its preoccupation with race. He also believes the South has been misunderstood. In a speech at Emory University while he was Governor, Carter said...
...attention to the law of the land. Duval County (Jacksonville and environs) employed busing, but primarily to move black students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites. In 1960 a Ku Klux Klan "ax-handle Saturday" resulted in a riot in which blacks who were peacefully picketing for integrated restaurants were severely beaten...