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Word: besting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most immediate problem was to restore order. There were hints that Chichester-Clark might decide to invoke Northern Ireland's Special Powers Act, which could enable police to undertake mass arrests and detentions. At best, however, such wholesale roundups could lead to nothing more than a temporary cooling-off period. At worst, since most police are Protestants, they could simply compound Catholic panic and resentment. Britain's direct involvement in its new Irish "troubles," belated and reluctant as it was, provided the only measure of relief. That involvement may well increase substantially, and perhaps indefinitely, before any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ULSTER: ENGULFED IN SECTARIAN STRIFE | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...corps of trained administrators to manage the litigation machinery "so that judges can get on with what they are presumed to be qualified to do - namely, disposing of cases." Pointing to congested court dockets, Burger called for a conference within 60 days of ten or twelve of "the best-in formed people in this country" to plan a program to train the large numbers of managers that are needed. He suggests that no lawyers or judges, or very few of them, be asked to participate, since "we lawyers and judges have not demonstrated great imagination or skill in this area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: A Highly Visible Chief | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Writer-Director Haskell Wexler, an Oscar winner who has built a reputation for himself as one of Hollywood's best cinematographers (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Loved One), scraped together $600,000 for this low-budget portrait of a country in conflict with itself. He chose Chicago, with its thousands of pent-up blacks and displaced Appalachian whites, as a symbolic seat of the conflict and began shooting last summer in a loose, almost documentary fashion-just as the convention confrontation was reaching a peak of frenzy. The uncomplicated plot turns on the developing love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dynamite | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...will be "last year's car," worth about $700 less for a compact and $2,000 less for some luxury models. During the next few weeks and months, the alert consumer can drive some hard bargains. The bargains may never live up to their billing as "the best deal yet," but there are certain guides to saving money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Bargain Season | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...shoestring capital of $8,000 and the cooperation of 16 fellow engineers aged 23 to 28. He staked the firm's future on a public-housing project and completed the job ahead of schedule. He thus began a close association with the government, which remains ICA's best customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Quintana's Box | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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