Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Withdrawal. With all that, Republicans and Southern Democrats were in a strong position to block the appointment with a filibuster. Hubert Humphrey challenged Richard Nixon to call Republicans off the filibuster, so that the case could come to a vote, which Fortas would probably win. Nixon refused, but tried to steer a middle course that would not overly displease either liberals or conservatives. He called Fortas an able jurist, expressed his own distaste for a filibuster, but said that he did not want to interfere with a Senate matter...
Where are the guards? Typically, the report finds, each cell block has only one guard who, from his station, "can see into none of the open cells and only 30% of the total area of the dormitory." Since cell doors are often unlocked and prisoners are allowed to roam from one cell to another, the violence occurs in secluded rear cells, where the victim's cries are muted...
...staffed by specialists: some to teach, the others to carry out research. He also shares Murphy's conviction that the university should be the intellectual servant of its community. This fall, he has instigated a university-financed project that will sponsor ghetto seminars in police-community relations, form block organizations and present both news and songs from a mobile...
After the bosses patched up with the unions, it was common knowledge that if you got connected by the middle of October you'd be the first one on your block. This opinion, however, overlooked the capacity of the bureaucracy to bore its petitioners to death...
...largely a result of the pitcher's propensity for popping off about Tiger Stadium, Detroit fans, his teammates?and just about anything that came to mind. Denny became so annoying that after Detroit lost the 1967 pennant by one game, rumor had it that he was on the trading block...