Word: backwashes
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...problem is loss of public faith in courts, said Thomas, and one big reason is "backwash from the irrational, intemperate and emotional criticism of the United States Supreme Court. Fair, objective and rational criticism of said court, as of all courts, is not only healthy and to be commended, but also to be continued. When criticism, how ever, not based on rational or reason able bases, becomes solely vitriolic and emotional, then all courts are bound to suffer in the consequent loss of respect, prestige and the confidence of citizens. For the layman is unable to differentiate or becomes forgetful...
...record), nonfarm employment (another new record), and personal income. But the tide does not seem to be lifting everyone equally, and the Senate Select Committee on Small Business has just produced another, less pleasant nautical metaphor. As the committee sees it, U.S. small business is "floundering in the backwash" of the speeding economy, failing for the first time in modern business history to share proportionately in the nation's prosperity...
...critics stress the danger of a backwash of resentment against the militancy of a plan to constipate movement of traffic through the city. The stall-in, they argue, will alienate moderates from the civil rights struggle. This would make the city officials more hesitant to act and could reinforce any campaign in the Senate to water down the civil rights bill. And so the debate has raged...
...this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense of the possible with its own immense presence...
...people at Rice University Stadium. Said the President: "Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it. We have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade...