Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Senate approval, at least during this presidential election year. Reports TIME Moscow Correspondent Bruce Nelan: "All along there has been extreme resentment in the Kremlin that the U.S. Senate was giving the U.S.S.R. grades on deportment and was threatening to kill SALT II unless Moscow behaved. Moscow was also upset by NATO's decision in December to deploy in Western Europe, by the mid-1980s, new atomic-tipped missiles capable of striking targets in the Soviet Union. Thus SALT simply was not all that important any more. Carter, meanwhile, had gone ahead and increased the U.S. defense budget and okayed...
April 13: As expected, Senator Kennedy trounces Carter and Brown in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary. Amy Carter, prompted by her grandmother, tells the Washington press corps that she hoped no one would mention Kennedy's dating habits as it might upset his troubled wife...
...visibly" upset. After that is the famous scene where he knocks the temple down. Samson stands between two pillars at the center of the stage. They have pillars with wire frames and canvas made to look like rock, and they hang from the ceiling. There are two men crouched behind the pillars, which are fake, so when he pushes his hands out, the two men do something and the pillars fall together. Then all these fake rocks fall, and I get hit by a rock and fall dead. But then, the frightening thing is, one of the two real pillars...
Khomeini's importance far transcends the nightmare of the embassy seizure, transcends indeed the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. The revolution that he led to triumph threatens to upset the world balance of power more than any political event since Hitler's conquest of Europe. It was unique in several respects: a successful, mostly nonviolent revolt against a seemingly entrenched dictator, it owed nothing to outside help or even to any Western ideology. The danger exists that
...American people do not seem upset with the muted reaction of U.S. allies. When asked if they agreed that "the Iranian situation has shown the U.S. has no real friends in the world," 71% said they disagreed. A similar majority (72%) felt Washington's reaction to the crisis had proved to the world that we are "tough and ready to stand up for our beliefs." Nearly half (44%) felt that the U.S. handling of the situation had increased America's prestige abroad; 26% said that U.S. prestige had decreased, while 23% believed there had been "no difference." Nearly...