Word: bend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their successors-Tom C. Clark and Sherman Minton-consistently disagreed with him. Black's wife died in 1951, plunging him into gloom for six years, until he married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...
...DiMaggio, but he could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since I'm still a Yankee fan, I can't and won't. He never...
...economically depressed South Bend, Ind., where foreign-born and first-generation Americans make up 23% of the population, Miller assailed any liberalization of immigration quotas. He declared that a Johnson Administration bill would "open the floodgates for any and all who wish to come and find work in this country" and would increase immigration next year "threefold." Actually, Miller was wrong on what the Administration's bill, now pending in House and Senate subcommittees, would do. It would drop nationality quotas, easing immigration for persons of needed skills, but would retain an overall quota. It would allow an increase...
...Seaside, Ore., some 2,000 teen-agers rioted over the Labor Day weekend. At Hampton Beach, N.H., police estimated that there were as many as 10,000 disorderly young people. At Grand Bend, Ont., there were 600, and resorts all over the country experienced some degree of vacation-end violence at the hands of the young. But even more disturbing were some crime statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which indicate that teen-agers were up to a lot more than throwing bricks and beer cans. Items...
...have the gun fire three flechettes automatically in quick succession. The darts are easily deflected by wind, brush or even leaves, and when they hit an enemy they may pass straight through his body without doing much damage. But it is far more likely that they will turn and bend, slashing through flesh like high-speed knives...