Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June alone. Gold and hard-currency reserves had fallen by $372 million in four months. Inadvertently, Wilson himself had speeded the crisis. Before leaving for his trip to Moscow fortnight ago, he explained to the House of Commons that the new 7% bank rate had been urgently necessary to defend the pound, then went on to add that other emergency measures would come in ten days' time. The warning unnerved investors and sent the pound plunging to $2.78 11/16-its lowest point in 20 months...
...Toman, and he started spilling all the gory details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed information meant to help build his case. The banner headline over Romy's story read FAMILY'S STORY OF SPECK'S LIFE; there was ample detail on Speck's marital problems and his earlier troubles with the police. It was the kind...
...this context, the Gandhian doctrine of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King is in danger of crumbling. Last week James Meredith, the lone wolf whose ambush on Highway 51 persuaded other civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady...
...same, the burden of proving that information can be justifiably suppressed would fall for the first time on federal officials, who could be haled into court to defend their decisions. Shouted through the Senate last fall, the bill last week went to the White House. President Johnson, though less than enthusiastic about the measure, was nonetheless expected to sign it-if only to demonstrate that the Great Society can be candid as well as creative...
...hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions," said Justice William Brennan, speaking for the slim 5-to-4 majority that was obviously determined to defend the court's earlier admonitions to police, urging them to make more use of scientific crime-detection equipment. For that was just what a Los Angeles policeman was doing after a 1964 auto accident, when he caught a whiff of booze on Armando Schmerber's breath and ordered a doc tor to give Schmerber a blood test, even though...