Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and District Judge Lewis R. Morgan, was based on the Civil Rights Act of 1870, which gives district courts jurisdiction over civil actions by individuals seeking redress of denial of their constitutional rights by a state or its officials. In his dissent, District Judge J. Robert Elliott, a Kennedy appointee with a past record of pro-segregation views, held that a federal court should not interfere in proceedings before state courts...
With three staffers, you should have an occasional dissent so that your readers will know that you have avoided the last referred-to condition...
...Whitney Griswold who died of cancer last April. As university provost and thus Yale's No. 2 faculty officer since 1961, Brewster had proved to be a. hardworking combination of scholar and administrator, and succeeded in charming New Haven in the bargain. But there were dark rumors of dissent among the 16 members of the arcane council that had the power of final decision, the Yale Corporation. For one thing, academic purists pointed out solemnly, Brewster had neither M.A. nor Ph.D. And though he was indeed a Yaleman (A.B. '41), his law degree came from, of all places...
Whatever the propaganda, Mao has worked for more than 30 years with the other six members of the Standing Committee of the 19-man Politburo without an internal bloodbath-a record unmatched by any other modern tyranny, Communist or Fascist. Among this band of brothers, dissent is possible-you may lose your job but not your head. Economic Chief Chen Yun opposed Mao's Great Leap and it only cost him a temporary fall from power. The other five committeemen are Heir Apparent Liu Shao-chi (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959), Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, May 10, 1954), Defense...
From Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater came the strongest dissent of all. "If the Soviets want this treaty," he said in a Senate speech, "and if they are interested in steps toward easing tension, should we not talk here and now about some proof in Cuba? There are Soviet troops in Cuba whose removal would speak louder than conference-table words." Similarly, argued Goldwater, let the Russians speak in Berlin. "They want this treaty. We want that wall to come down. Let the Wall come down, and the negotiation over this treaty might make some common sense...