Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...derelict or soldier...
...Justices agreed that Holmes' decision, which created a unique status for baseball among professional sports, was a poor one. Justice William O. Douglas, one of the dissenters, called it "a derelict in the stream of law." Said Justice Thurgood Marshall: "We do not lightly overrule our prior constructions of federal statutes, but when our errors deny substantial federal rights... we must admit our error and correct it." The rights involved were those of former St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Curt Flood. He had charged that baseball's "reserve clause," which binds all players to the teams that own their...
...accomplish for the Bureau, and it maintains particularly strict controls over the series. It gave permission for the show--which a number of studios had been seeking since television began--at a time when criticism of the FBI was rising, from citizens who suggested that the Bureau had been derelict in protecting President Kennedy and providing protection to civil rights workers in the South...
...colonels' favorite propaganda devices is that they are improving economic conditions and especially in the countryside, and that the liberal governments before their regime were derelict economically...
...knows that Charles Olson died in January? A young assistant professor tells me, "You don't have to be a derelict to write about it. Read 'The Wasteland.'" I have read "The Wasteland": I suggested that he read "Howl." But it's too diffuse for him, too self-indulgent, too negative. He prefers Robert Frost...