Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another controversial passage allows the Attorney General to file a suit for breach of this Title on behalf of the victim of discrimination. Southerners abhor such use of Federal power, while advocates of the Act claim many Negroes would be intimidated economically and physically if they sued on their own. The Title outlaws such intimidation, authorizing the Attorney General to seek an injunction against...
...Once more unto the breach, dear friends," the hero (Sean Connery) announces as the story begins. He means, somebody hastens to explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian cipher clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who has somehow heard of Bond's charms, informs the British Secret Service that for one night with him she'll do anything-like turn over the latest Soviet cipher machine. Obviously a trap, but Hero Bond steps into it as casually as he steps into his rep silk undershorts...
...synopsis. Abigail's husband goes into segregationist politics. Grandfather's open secret does not bother the voters-until an opponent discovers that he had not just taken his Negro girl for a mistress; he had married her. As outraged as any of his supporters at this breach in the code, Abigail's husband does what he has to do: he leaves her, abandons his campaign, and leads a mob to burn Grandfather Howland's barn to the ground...
...intention of returning to the late unlamented Fourth Republic, with its dreary succession of ephemeral governments. He concedes that French voters now prefer a strong President and promises to retain the Gaullist constitution, but without De Gaulle's self-assumed special powers, which Defferre considers a breach of that constitution...
...other Tory leaders refused to abandon the bill. Prospects now are that the impending general election will not be held until the last possible moment in the fall, not only to give Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home the maximum national exposure but to allow the new breach in the party to heal...