Word: cival
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...since the Cival War has a Supreme Court seat been vacant for so long. Not since the fight over Louis Brandeis in 1916 has a court nomination stirred up so destructive a dispute as that produced by the unsuccessful Carswell and Haynsworth nominations. With an almost palpable sense of relief, the Senate is set to begin the repair process this week by consenting - cheerfully - to the appointment of Federal Circuit Judge Harry Blackmun to the place vacated by Abe Fortas' forced resig nation twelve months...
Always active in cival liberties matters, primarily through the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Howe's energies in recent years had been concentrated on civil rights problems. The scholarly analyst of the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution was also a founder of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, which sought to bring to fruition the paper rights granted by those amendments. In the summer of 1965 Howe spent his vacation in Mississippi trying civil rights cases for the Committee...
...clopped from Victoria Station, where Elizabeth greeted them, to Buckingham Palace, a woman burst from the crowd and shrieked: "Release my husband!" She turned out to be Mrs. Betty Ambatielos, 45, the English wife of Antonios Ambatielos, a Greek Communist serving a life term for his part in the cival...
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