Word: cour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: Hyman Rickover, 64, awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" as the Navy's atomic top kick; Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill, 66, given the annual $1,000 Fiorina Lasker Civil Liberties Award for "cour age and integrity in defense of civil liberties"; NBC-TV Newsman David Brinkley, 43, presented with the 1964 Golden Key Award at a convention of the American Association of School Administrators for significant contribution to the national welfare...
...almost as if Supreme Cour justices and laymen alike are resigned to the letter of blue laws living on for ever, although their spirit has long beer dead. New York State Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor spoke for the majority of the citizens in 1904 when he rebuked the police for trying to enforce "dead-letter laws" not supported by the public. "It is not the business of the police to revive them," he said. "They are not employed and paid by the citizens for any such purpose...
...with slow-footed Courtaulds, Ltd. (sales: $481 million), Britain's biggest maker of artificial fibers. Faced with stubborn resistance from Courtaulds' board, which is reluctant to be swallowed up, I.C.I, declared a proxy war, publicly offered to swap $560 million worth of its stock for all of Cour taulds' outstanding shares...
This student--who happenecidentally, to be Irish--des his reaction to the book: "The et said, when you pick this bo you can't put it down. Of cour rather doubted this. But I the book, read it on the train said hello to Mother, and w reading till I'd finished. W said seemed so true...