Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador Arthur Goldberg introduced an alternative resolution to the Soviet proposals that incorporated the five principles laid down by Johnson and added the suggestion that Arab-Israeli peace talks be assisted by a disinterested mediator. After Goldberg's formal motion, the General Assembly became a kind of Hyde Park Corner for every diplomatic soapboxer in town...
When a chartered Imperial Airlines Constellation plunged into a swamp outside Richmond, Va., in 1961, killing 74 army recruits, the struggling nonscheduled airline industry seemed to crash with it. Irked by poor safety records, corner-cutting operations and complaints from tourists stranded when companies ran out of money-and armed with a tough new law from Congress-the Civil Aeronautics Board cleaned house. Some 20 carriers went out of business, and the survivors were forced to adhere to rigorous standards...
...WORLD). Determined to recoup their psychological loss at least, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his colleagues at this week's emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly faced the difficult task of inveighing against a fait accompli-Israel's shattering territorial gains. Backed into that corner, the Soviets might be expected to lash out with bitter denunciation not only of Israel but also...
...Turned Corner. By throwing out Proposition 14, it ruled in favor of open housing in California, but it also served notice that it would not protect civil rights demonstrators who violate legitimate local laws. On obscenity, the court continued to find most works protected by the First Amendment. But it did suggest that distasteful purveying of borderline works or selling to minors may well be legitimate criminal offenses if legislation is drawn with proper narrowness. On individual rights, the court found that a U.S. citizen cannot be deprived of his citizenship for voting in another country's election...
Civil libertarians, like University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, feel that the court has "turned a corner," and that from now on the balance will shift against criminal defendants and civil rights demonstrators. But the new-found moderation might be better read as an indication that many cases now reaching the court are no longer as clearly in violation of its reading of the Constitution. The court activists, who used to find themselves most often in the majority of 5-4 decisions, now increasingly lose at least one of their number to the re-strainers. The man whom most...