Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intended for some unsuspecting organ of the Establishment. The preeminent leftist campus group of the Sixties. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) had first emerged 10 years earlier, boasting a provocative dissent from the ideals of liberal America. But by the time the organization had deteriorated into the underground Weatherman network, it had become associated chiefly with wrecked college administration buildings and pointless casualties in a perverse revolution...
...final weeks of the '82 campaign, the Reagan Administration was something like a weatherman who forecasts sunny skies while it is raining outside. It appeared temporarily oblivious to a $155 billion deficit projected for fiscal 1983 and attempted to divert public concern from a 10.1 % unemployment rate with the promise of better days ahead. But elections and optimism go hand in hand, regardless of political party. What the White House must now confront is a panoply of politically charged issues it kept under wraps during the campaign season...
When the First Snow came, it came softly. The first flakes fell determinedly, but melted on contact with the warm pavement. The weatherman said "a couple of inches" and we all thought "just slush and puddles...
Weather Underground Organization. Originally called Weatherman (after the Bob Dylan lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"), the group was formed in 1969 by about 300 mostly white, middle-class youths who split from the relatively nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society and called for an "armed struggle against the state." A hard core of about 40 Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year three members died in the explosion of a town house in New York City's Greenwich Village; Katherine Boudin...
...case has received widespread attention because two of those captured, Katherine Boudin and Judith Clark, were well-known Weather Underground members. Boudin had been a fugitive since the 1970 fatal explosion of a Weatherman bomb factory in New York City while Clark served nine months in jail after being convicted in that case...