Word: clog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, of course, a thunderbolt of outrage cracks around the world. Moscow and Peking issue angry warnings. Demonstrators clog the streets outside U.S. embassies, and USIA libraries are burned. Headlines are black and thunderous; U.S. allies look grave and offer to mediate; the United Nations is in an uproar. In the U.S., sandals and beards and protest signs turn up everywhere. The liberal press is in a frenzy. Congressmen and Senators shake their heads solemnly and charge the U.S. with attempting to police the world...
...fascist, and contemporary statutes that make up Italian law, the only thing certain is that there is no divorce. After that it's gangbusters. Everything is so tangled that it takes twelve to 18 months before a first hearing on any charge; a final judgment takes years. The clog in courthouse and jailhouse gets worse as each year gets older. Then, every so often, just before the jam-up becomes impossible to handle, the Italians resort to a sure cure: a general amnesty for all but the most dangerous offenders...
...state elections.* Last week, in accordance with a congressional directive in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department interceded in a suit brought against the Virginia levy by four Negroes "of very limited means," formally asked the Supreme Court to outlaw "for once and for all" this "serious clog in the exercise of the vote...
...many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly every movie star who ever lived-yet there are other impressionists who can keep up with...
Editor Neal, a 1945 West Point graduate who later resigned his commission to run the family newspaper, says that he is all for a traffic crackdown, but he insists that New's method will simply clog the court with jury trials, while cops who must testify on their days off will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize...