Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yankee Bargain. In 1960, the movement began to cross Massachusetts' borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
...that it could, emphasizing that the Government had partly financed the hospitals, which thus subjected them to constitutional safeguards against discrimination. 1965. When Negro pupils sued the Richmond school board to desegregate teachers-in addition to students-a 3-to-2 majority of Haynsworth's court held upon appeal that a lower court did not have to consider the claim. Writing for the majority, Haynsworth said that the pupils had failed to show that teacher assignments based on race "effect a denial of their constitutional rights." Again, a unanimous Supreme Court reversed...
...pinches of pot. They forced their way into the house, arrested the couple and proceeded to search the premises until, they claimed later, they found caches of marijuana and LSD. After the defendants were each sentenced to between one and ten years, they were released on bail pending appeal...
...Davis-a Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, a protegee of New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and a onetime Black Panther-because she is, by her own admission, a member of the Communist Party. For the moment, she is being allowed to give non-credit lectures pending the outcome of her appeal to a faculty committee on privilege and tenure...
...Gambler's Courage. Part of the lady's appeal was sheerly feminine. Tall (5 ft. 11 in.) and graceful, she had a slightly hoydenish charm that could beguile even her English jailers long after she had lost her looks. She grew up in the cultivated, opulent court of France and French was the language she ordinarily spoke and wrote throughout her life. Pampered and adored there, she was the bride of the sickly Dauphin at 15, Queen of France at 16, a widow-and very possibly still a virgin...