Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question at issue: Should the House of Representatives accept the watered-down civil rights bill passed by the Senate? Joe Martin was all for shelving the bill in hopes of getting a better one in Election Year, 1958. But Martin and like-minded Republicans were fighting a lonely battle. They had been left in the lurch by such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Americans for Democratic Action and the A.F.L.-C.I.O., all of which, after years of making 100% civil rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists...
Republican Senators who had gone through the long, bone-tiring fight for a strong bill seemed unwilling to do it again. Minority Leader William Knowland frankly wanted the House to accept the weak bill. New York's Republican Jacob Javits, who has made a political career out of civil rights, was proclaiming: "I want a civil rights bill, not a campaign issue." That left it up to House Republicans-and, finding themselves virtually isolated in the effort for a strong bill, they began giving way despite Leader Martin's pleas to stand fast. Illinois' Leo Allen...
Thus, at week's end, it was likely that the House would accept the Senate civil rights bill with one major amendment: the Senate provision requiring jury trials for all criminal contempt cases would be narrowed to include only those pertaining to voting rights. After that, the prospect was for President Eisenhower to sign the bill-probably with an accompanying message criticizing it and promising that the Republicans would be back next session with a stronger bill...
Limited war, Kissinger maintains, need not lead either to all-out H-bomb war or to stalemate; linked with diplomacy, it strives for specific political gains. For every new Communist aggression, it promises a punishing limited setback, a setback that the enemy will reluctantly accept because the loss is not worth the risk of starting the all-out war. Thus the strategy of ambiguity and the burden of decision for risking total war are turned on the enemy; either he must settle for setback or risk the certain destruction that would come with all-out war. Thus the small inroads...
...school. But she worked sternly, and she finished among the top ten in the graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea how to be a lady on the court," he says, "but she was still unable to accept defeat with grace. If I ran up a 4-1 lead, she'd just quit. Anyone who could get' a lead on her could beat...