Word: braked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court has leaned to sweepingly liberal interpretations of the Constitution's civil liberties clauses, and judicial restraint has acted as a conservative brake. Under Warren, Frankfurter repeatedly dissented from majority opinions upsetting federal or state laws. His last major dissent was from the majority opinion that brought apportionment of seats in state legislatures under the review of federal courts. He called the decision "a massive repudiation of our whole past in asserting destructively novel judicial...
...powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long slide...
...researchers found no physiological differences between the two types. Their blood pressures were in the same range, both at rest and under stress. In psychomotor skills (brake reaction time, vision, making split-second decisions), the high-accident men rated a notch higher than low-risk types−but in responding more quickly they also made more mistakes...
...need after dark; a marking of white or reflectorized paint or tape (area about five square inches) on lower portion of rear fender and upper portion on both sides of the front fork; a suitable bell or horn-sirens or here or whistles are not permitted; and on adequate brake...
Just outside Chester, Conn., Batchelor suddenly found himself in a traffic crisis that even he had not dealt with in his thousand tries. His brakes failed. Instead of shifting into lower gear, pulling off the road to the right, grabbing for his emergency brake, or simply switching off the ignition and coasting to a stop, Driver Batchelor invited the undertaker. Recognizing what he thought was an open spot ahead, Batchelor swerved left at full speed-into the wrong lane and collision course with a bakery truck. But despite Batchelor's invitation, the undertaker declined. The 74-year-old cartoonist...