Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon listed the problems of ramshackle judicial machinery: unconscionable delays in criminal cases, overcrowded prisons, court calendars clogged with trivial cases. "All this," he said, "sends everyone in the system of justice home at night feeling as if they have been trying to brush back a flood with a broom." Ultimately, Nixon argued, "the goal of changing the process of justice is not to put more people in jail or merely to provide a faster flow of litigation. It is to resolve conflict speedily, but fairly." In one of the few suggestions of his earlier rhetoric, Nixon declared: "Justice dictates...
Their entire life they wield the broom to muddle up useless things...
...Broom Wielding. In these and numerous other races this year, the outcome may hinge on quixotic turns. In Texas, bumbling incumbent Democrat Preston Smith was conducting a listless campaign until a broom-wielding student approached him on a speakers' platform at the University of Houston. In Massachusetts, Democrat Kevin White aroused the interest of the electorate not at all until he went into the hospital with a perforated stomach ulcer. Smith is the favorite in Texas, and White's physical and political health are both reported improving...
...movement's diversity is pointed up by the variety of new women's publications. Most are angry and barely afloat financially. A few, such as Aphra, a quarterly located in Springtown, Pa., and Women: A Journal of Liberation, of Baltimore, are of high literary quality. Some, like A Broom of One's Own, of Washington, are largely one-woman efforts. Two angry entries are Off Our Backs and Up from Under?a gymnastic juxtaposition...
Calvert's new broom has also swept aside a number of nonacademic traditions, such as freshman hazing. No longer do upperclassmen make a plebe stand at attention and jab at his breastbone until he passes out; gone are the impromptu push-ups and relay races through the endless corridors of the middie dormitory, Bancroft Hall. Plebes are still made to perform menial tasks for upperclassmen, but Calvert firmly maintains that harassment and degradation will not produce respect for authority...