Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the six-man Commission, Griswold predicted that the withholding of funds might act as a lever to force Mississippi to end discrimination. Acknowledging that such action might widen the breach between the Southern state and the Federal Government, he declared that Mississippi could no longer ignore its responsibilities to the rest of the nation...
Your researchers likewise failed lo consult Peter Rossi's study of the Hyde Park controversy, Politics of Urban Renewal. Publication of unresearched, undocumented and unfounded libel upon the Catholic Church in a magazine of national circulation is a serious breach of press responsibility and, unless effectively correcled, stands as a reflection upon the integrity of TIME...
...carried signs reading DOWN WITH SEGREGATION and I AM PROUD TO BE A NEGRO. Everything seemed orderly enough, but City Manager Irving McNayr spotted some "possible troublemakers," ordered Columbia's cops to send the Negro demonstrators home. When the Negroes refused, 187 were arrested, charged and convicted of "breach of the peace," handed jail sentences of up to 30 days or fines...
Matter of Time. While lumbermen rejoiced, a chill went through U.S. shipowners. "This is the first breach in the dike." said Pacific Maritime Association President J. Paul St. Sure. Shipping men fear that it is just a matter of time before other industries-sugar, newsprint, iron and steel pipe, petroleum-try for the same concessions. Yet shipowners know that the Jones Act has failed miserably in its effort to isolate U.S. shipping from the inevitable tides of economics...
Berlin's ugly wall is not the only barrier that Communism's inmates try to breach. Soviet authorities are concerned at the increasing number of Soviet youths trying to sneak illegally out of Russia itself. Recently two young Russians tried to leave the country by swimming out to a foreign tanker in the Black Sea port of Batum; they were picked up by a Soviet harbor patrol boat. One was sentenced to six years in prison, the other to ten. One of the men, said Soviet officials, had been influenced by modern, Western-style poetry-"bad verse that...