Word: burned
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...Burn the Papers. An uneasy stirring of conscience in 1957 finally moved Congress to pass a civil rights bill that allowed the Government to initiate suits in cases of voting discrimination or intimidation. Again, in 1960 and 1964, the laws were revised to make it easier for Justice Department lawyers to get action on voting suits. Still, the courts drifted along at a painfully slow pace. Seventy-one suits have been filed by the Government since the 1957 law was passed. Yet in only about a dozen of these cases have courts handed down orders with enough muscle actually...
...Government had to analyze 36,000 pages of voter applications and subpoena 185 witnesses; six lawyers worked a full year just to prepare the case for court. When Congress authorized free Government access to registration records, Mississippi's legislature simply passed a law empowering state registrars to burn their papers. A voting-discrimination suit against officials in Selma was started in April 1961, but it was not until last month that an effective court order was produced-and Selma's registration history, so eloquently depicted in current headlines, testifies to the effectiveness of that court order...
Ground fire against the raiders was minimal, because low-flying jets had swooped in ahead with napalm to burn out the enemy...
Over the past six months, more than 125,000 refugees have poured into the coastal region. Many of the new arrivals have been forced to burn their identity cards in the flames consuming their homes-making it easier for Viet Cong cadres to infiltrate alongside them. It was all too reminiscent of the last days of the Korean War, when thousands of displaced persons flooded through the Main Line of Resistance. Often the benevolent, top-hatted South Korean papa-san was freighted with grenades or a machine...
...body chemicals, the treatment must be accompanied by checks on the microchemistry of his blood salts so that any imbalance can be quickly corrected. How well the treatment works under these conditions is shown by the fact that Barnes has lost only one of the last 30 burn patients admitted since last April whose therapy began with the silver nitrate. In the month since Dr. Moyer made his report, other hospitals have begun using his treatment and with similar promising results...