Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressures for a more flexible policy probably began building in Peking in late August, 1968, when the Soviets shocked the Chinese with their effortless crackdown on Czechoslovakia. Hundreds of minor border clashes with the Soviets and a few major ones since last spring deepened Peking's anxiety...
Testifying before a House Post Office subcommittee in Washington, the silver-maned Senator urged a crackdown on the "smut peddlers" who send pornography through the mails to children. Despite "wishy-washy" court definitions of obscenity, said Barry Goldwater, "As a father and a grandfather, I know, by golly, what is obscene and what isn't." That same evening the Senator effectively dispelled any notions that he might be a prude. At a National Aviation Club reception in his honor, Pilot Goldwater fondly recalled his recent 2,100-m.p.h. flight at the controls of Lockheed's superjet...
...repressive military regime of Argentine Dictator Juan Carlos Ongania has fallen on tough times. Last May a police crackdown on students touched off bloody big-city riots. Three weeks ago, railway workers set whole trains afire in response to a mobilization order...
...unperceptive ears of the parents, Miller and Farley both vowed a crackdown on "pushers." But to those who were listening, they never mentioned a crackdown for possession...
Miller, a 36-year-old Princetonian with a patrician and liberal background going back to the Revolutionary War, hedged on his crackdown-on-pushers stance even more. Although reluctant to push a pro-pot platform, Miller did say that the possession part of the law-for pot-was unenforceable. He said that he favors devoting a good deal of money to the non-criminal type of home rehabilitation for people addicted to the harder stuff...