Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once again for the United States. In the crisis of Watergate two years ago, Gerald Ford, without flair or ambition, had furnished what the nation needed-solidity, courage, common sense and honor. Ford's stewardship was a welcome change from the decade of disarray that began with the bullet that killed Kennedy. That he thought he should stay longer may have been Ford's biggest mistake. That another term, a prospect he had not considered when he first came to power, was more than the American people wanted to give him was something that Ford never quite accepted...
...resignation the demise of then-chaotic three-year-old "democratic experiment." Bangkok has quickly recovered its sybaritic style. The city's annual autumn festivals, its race track and fleshpots are jammed with tourists. Shares on the local stock market have risen 70% in the past three weeks. The bullet-and-grenade-pocked classrooms of Thammasat University, site of the bloody student rioting that preceded the coup (TIME, Oct. 18), have become something of a tourist attraction. But the total of 41 dead in the riots is not forgotten: cremations and lotus ceremonies are still being carried out in Buddhist...
...Catholic ghetto of Belfast that is also a bastion of the Irish Republican Army, the women's peace movement suffered its first serious setback. Arriving to address a meeting in protest against the killing of a 13-year-old neighborhood boy by a British soldier's plastic bullet, Williams and Corrigan were shouted down, pummeled by an angry mob and driven to seek sanctuary in a nearby church. While the terrified women were comforted by a priest in the Holy Trinity sacristy, youths smashed their cars...
...British, "misguided" advocates who ignore police and army killings. Both have endured hecklers, obscene letters and death threats scrawled on walls. Then, just after the Turf Lodge meeting opened, word reached the already angry crowd that a British soldier had injured a pregnant woman with a plastic bullet. The eruption, Williams later conceded, was almost inevitable. She told TIME'S Ed Curran: "We had quite a good honeymoon period-better than I expected. Still, I suppose this had to happen...
...this elegiac exhibition of the art of a vanishing race has a leitmotiv, it is an elongated, galloping wooden horse carved by a Sioux and collected by a missionary. Wounded - by a white man's bullet? - the anguished animal seems to be flying forever across thousands of miles of American experience. It epitomizes an essential theme of American art and literature: nature corrupted and innocence defiled...