Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Hubert Humphrey, the President aligned himself with Humphrey's persistent effort to remove a major roadblock in the U.S. relationship with the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The roadblock: the so-called Connally Amendment of 1946, under which the U.S. reserves the right to bypass the World Court on any dispute that it considers "essentially domestic...
...American Automobile Association and the Georgia State Department of Commerce sat down for still another in a long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey...
...previous U.S. visitors, Khrushchev voiced the opinion that world peace could be guaranteed if only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four and the U.N., in favor of direct dealings with Moscow. Khrushchev had been almost indifferent-as well as rude-to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Now, in return for his welcome to Nixon, Nikita unabashedly hoped to get an invitation to the U.S. And judging from...
...Lofts. Highway 128 was built to be just a Boston bypass. But in the eight years since it opened, the roadway has lured 17 industrial parks and $137 million worth of new buildings. Into them have moved 227 companies employing 28,000 people...
...Lawrence Seaway, storied ship route to the heart of the continent, is in business. For the first time in history, deep-draft ocean vessels can bypass the shallows of the upper St. Lawrence, steam through a system of locks and 27-ft. channels to the Great Lakes...