Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their hearts, many Republicans may now feel more strongly than ever that Nixon was right in using his considerable influence as a presidential candidate last fall to block Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice. In public, the G.O.P. was more concerned with avoiding any semblance of vindictiveness against the court's only Jew (though the New York Post, a Jewish-oriented newspaper, called for Fortas' resignation). In fact, Republicans had little reason to involve themselves in the furor. As one White House aide put it: "The feeling around here is that Fortas is going to have to resign...
...committee. "You don't do a damn thing." Asked by Javits if she knew of "people actually suffering from hunger," she replied: "Are you kiddin'? Are you kiddin'? You can walk down the street in east Los Angeles and seven families out of ten on a block are barely existing." Said Catherine Jermany, a huge black woman who heads an organization known as the Los Angeles County Welfare Rights Organization: "I'm tired of this jive! This whole welfare thing is an administrative cop-out." Lydia Rodrigues scolded the Senators: "Coming here, asking for statistics...
...nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen is going along with American Medical Association opposition to the selection...
Next, a gang of thieves try to bully Fidelman into art forgery. He proves to be possibly the first copyist in the world with painter's block. But when he finally does manage to complete a counterfeit of Titian's Venus of Urbino, he likes the fake so much that he steals it back from the thieves in preference to the real thing. Skillfully Malamud somehow turns this gesture into a superbly comic act of integrity...
...cannot set against the block...