Word: enact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dollar housing bill (see below) and the bill to boost the pay of federal employees by 20%. He worked away at a tough-toned special message, to be sent to Capitol Hill this week, calling upon Congress to resist election-year spending temptations, reject budget-straining welfare bills, and enact his own less costly proposals instead...
Bang & Whimper. The last hours of debate made the bill sound like a calamity. Shuddered Virginia's Democratic Harry Byrd: "I have never known such a determined effort to enact punitive legislation, most of which was unconstitutional and offensive to the South...
...Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint of their kisses, as well as their names and addresses. Toy counters were crowded with "Nanavati" cap pistols so that Indian small fry could re-enact the killing. Bombay teen-agers put new words to the tune of Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley...
...right to withhold any case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve only to encourage other nations to enact the same kind of proviso, create a situation where disputants could keep any meaningful international cases away from the court simply by labeling them "domestic.'' Events proved them correct, and the structure of international law was seriously weakened...