Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yelling, stamping, cheering, the Teamsters elected Hoffa, 53, to a third five-year term. By acclamation, they gave him a $25,000 raise, to $100,000 a year. They voted-with just one local representative opposed-$1,277,000 in union funds for the legal defense of criminally indicted officers...
The early Americans were so secure in their sense of privacy that they seldom gave it a thought-the Constitution does not contain the term. If anything, most felt they had more privacy than they needed in their scattered farms, and made up for it by frequent gatherings at taverns...
The biggest legal milestone in this field was last year's Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which overthrew the state's law against the use of contraceptives as an invasion of marital privacy, and for the first time declared the "right of privacy" to be derived...
No Emotion. The 96-year-old statute under which they and a third Klansman, George H. Turner, were accused makes it a crime to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution...
Looking much like a back-country parish priest, Casaroli has several qualities that make him an almost ideal Vatican diplomat: he speaks half a dozen languages, has both a vast fund of patience and a passion for anonymity. Casaroli approaches negotiations by picking and probing for small areas of agreement...