Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford inaugurated the new stance by directing that the $5.5 billion Sentinel anti-ballistic-missile program be exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles...
...alternately bored by the emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...
...Nader, 34, took aim at Washington's official bastion of consumer protection, the Federal Trade Commission, and infected other youthful Americans with his muckraking zeal. Seven bright young Ivy Leaguers flanked him, five of them with legal training, badgering startled FTC officials with pointed questions that Nader believes Congress should ask but never...
...beginning could hardly have been more appropriate. There were the firemen searching the decrepit Teatro degli Animosi (Theater of the Courageous) in the Italian town of Carrara for bombs. Only after they had given the all clear did the Third International Congress of Anarchist Federations call itself to order-of a sort. As it turned out, there was more than enough verbal bombast to compensate for the lack of real bombs...
...semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted Danny. "Your anarchists are paid by the CIA." Once again the congress exploded. "Fascist! You're a fascist!" yelled the delegates. With that, Danny and his group of unofficial French representatives walked out of the conference, taking the Swiss and the British "delegation" (a Scotsman) with them...