Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school system as a whole." By thus accentuating the negative, Burger appeared to make it even more difficult for beleaguered school authorities to implement busing plans. Said one official: "Swann was supposed to be a landmark, but it's beginning to look like more of a barrier...
...Twelfth Amendment says that the members of the Electoral College in each state must vote for one man-for President or Vice President-who is an inhabitant of another state. The amendment has never been put to a test, but it does not seem to be an absolute barrier; one of the candidates, for instance, could change his legal residence before the electors meet...
...remaining "Soledad brothers," as they are known, Fleeta Drumbo and John Clutchette, stripped off their shirts in court in an attempt to expose bruises from beatings that they said they had received after the uprising. Two days later, in a tense, spectator-filled courtroom newly equipped with a bulletproof barrier between spectators and the bench, another hearing took place. When Judge Carl Allen repeatedly denied defense motions to investigate the beating charge, Mrs. Doris Maxwell, Clutchette's mother, screamed, "You ain't no honorable judge!" Bailiffs, later reinforced by helmeted San Francisco policemen, moved into the spectator section...
...random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis...
Beautiful Cumberland. One of the greatest environmental treasures remaining to the nation is the brief, marshy Georgia coastline between Savannah and St. Marys. The jewels of this region are the unusual "barrier islands" and particularly Cumberland Island, which was recently designated a national seashore area. There was good reason for preserving it. Wild horses...