Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, says White, when Bobby heard that Johnson had been talking with newsmen, he was enraged, protested to Johnson about "this breach of confidence. The President assured the Attorney General that he hadn't told anyone about their conversation. The Attorney General observed directly to the President that the President was not telling the truth...
Gilkey began by comparing the pacifism of his generation with the pacifism of the generation in college now. Then as now, he said, any breach of the peace was an attack on basic values, and war seemed inconceivable. But through the experience of World War II, Gilkey continued, that generation learned that power had to be used, but used with restraint. The current generation he said, is still hesitant to use power...
...students (scholars they were called then) wore their sober uniform, not ostentatiously distinctive or capable of arousing democratic envy . . .," reminisced James Lowell, neglecting to mention Thoreau's breach of decorum and, moreover, humbly refraining from revealing that even as Thoreau strode in olive green, he himself, in the class behind Thoreau, was decked out in vests and jackets reflecting the wilder reaches of the visible spectrum...
...that quarter, and his handling of the military has also shown promise. When a group of junior naval officers mutinied against Admiral Chung Tan Cang - thus setting in motion a chain of military movements that could have ended in a coup -Quat quickly brought the mutineers to trial for breach of discipline. At the same time, he suspended Cang pending a full investigation of the mutineers' charges: graft and malfeasance. Military order was maintained, and the customary Vietnamese tactic of taking the law into one's own hands was sternly rejected...
Even so, arrest without a warrant is perfectly constitutional when police reasonably believe that a felony has been committed and that the person to be arrested committed it. Police may also arrest anyone for misdemeanors that constitute a "breach of the peace" committed in their presence. (Threatening someone with a broken bottle would qualify in most courts.) But other kinds of misdemeanors generally require warrants. And because felonies may be confused with misdemeanors, police sometimes unwittingly make unlawful arrests...