Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only people interested in state boundaries will be Rand McNally." He cried out that the Prohibition Amendment had disastrously deprived states of freedom to make their own laws and that "in 1932 my party was overwhelmingly voted out of office, and not the least of the issues were bread and booze." He insisted that "the whole burden of my argument has been: go back to the people." He intimated that the Supreme Court had taken on powers well beyond its right, then thundered in conclusion Brutus' line justifying the assassination of Caesar: "Not that I love Caesar less...
...Bread & Water. The Uniform Code of Military Justice governs members of all five armed forces and all organizations assigned to them, such as the Public Health Service. It used to govern servicemen's wives and civilian employees outside the U.S., but the Supreme Court (acting on writs of habeas corpus) voided that power in 1957. The code proscribes a wide variety of offenses, ranging from military mutiny to burglary. It authorizes execution (usually hanging) for everything from premeditated murder to wartime desertion, but makes death mandatory only for spying. No military executions have occurred since 1961; the Navy...
...surprisingly, the code's judicial niceties have moved the services to demand and get more authority for handling minor offenses by meting out punishment without trial-for example, up to seven days in the brig and three days on bread and water. Beyond this, however, the accused is entitled to three kinds of courts-martial, basically ranked according to punishment power...
...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...
...another's bread; how weary is the road...