Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...motives--makes her saintliness appear sinful and her vices sacremental. In retrospect she sees her decision to lose her virginity, for instance, as nothing but an attempt to shock her father into attention. Incestuous lovehate fro him made her sleep with his (only) disciple; perhaps she even intended to trigger her father's heart attack a few months later...
...opening-night curtain call at Eubie! would certainly have astonished the patrons of Miss Aggie's bawdyhouse in Baltimore, where James Hubert Blake played ragtime piano at the turn of the century. Thin as a blade, remarkably spry and mentally trigger-quick, Eubie confounds his 95 years. At Broadway's Ambassador Theater he mounted the stage, accepted a single rose in tribute, engaged in amiable banter and joined cast and audience alike as they roared out their affection by paraphrasing his biggest hit: "I'm just wild about Eubie...
...military. Martial law is generally more serious than a state of emergency or a state of siege, and more comprehensive than a suspension of habeas corpus or an imposition of preventive detention. It is both a political and a psychological device, which implies that authority begins at the trigger of a gun. In effect, says Farooq Hassan, a Pakistani legal scholar now teaching at American University in Washington, B.C., "martial law is a political weapon to show the public that, no matter how unpopular the regime in power, it still has the support of the army...
...interagency committee in July began examining alternatives short of wage-price controls, which Carter himself last week again ruled out. The White House has also forbidden "guidelines"-but only the word, which is anathema to businessmen and union leaders. The concept, renamed "standards" or "trigger points," is one of the hottest prospects for Stage...