Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such religiously motivated vandalism is not so worrisome to Israelis as a newer challenge to the law: organized crime. The infection has spread in the wake of the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s. It appeals particularly to those who could not fit into a modern, Western-style society. At its core are several Mafia-like family gangs whose ethnic roots are in Yemen and North Africa. Beginning as petty criminals, they are now said to be engaged in counterfeiting, extortion, illegal money transactions, black market operations and even drug smuggling from South America...
...political prisoners, their deaths will certainly carry political significance, bloodshed that can and should be averted. And by conceding to demands that certainly are not ludicrous--certainly politics is in many ways involved in the prison terms of these men--Britain would show it had begun to wake up to the problems of her rule in Northern Ireland...
...come nobody seems to care much? This campus, for instance, has seen huge protests against oppression in South Africa and Central America. Hundreds wore green ribbons in the wake of the slayings in Atlanta, and hundreds more will wear green and white sashes to Commencement. But almost no one wore a black armband the day Bobby Sands died...
...except that the Protestants, and pretty soon the British troops, began to shoot at them. Don't you know that unemployment is higher, that wages are lower, that life is mean, for the Irish who live in Northern Ireland? Can't you imagine what it would feel like to wake up in the morning and see armored troop carriers, with little slits for the guns, rolling up your streets? What it would feel like to have British soldiers everywhere, even in your barrooms...
...women's A race. Eliot, which usually just has to wake up to win, got an unexpected challenge from the women of K-House...