Word: filibusterer
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In the world's eyes, the U.S. seemed to be sitting atop a curious paradox. On the one hand, there was the image of President Eisenhower, returning from still another successful good-will trip abroad, where by force of personality and earnest pleadings, he characterized for millions of Latin...
The obvious contradiction between Ike's U.S. and the filibuster's U.S. told more about the outcome of the Senate struggle than any of the round-the-clock oratory or pungent rhetoric. The right to vote is so basic a right that the right to filibuster could not...
Thoughtful U.S. Southerners-including many Senators who were going through the Shintoesque ceremonial of the filibuster-knew full well that their case against the right to vote was doomed. Said the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel last week: "It must be generally realized that this repression of Negro citizens won'...
After the shouting came a test of strength; by more than a two-thirds majority, a bid for delay by the Southern Democrats was beaten. Although the Dixieland band started talking in a polite filibuster, it was clear that, as in the civil rights showdown of 1957, Johnson had the...
Ever since he and the army took over the wobbly and corrupt government of Burma 15 months ago, he has been anxiously trying to settle the country's longstanding border dispute with Red China. But each time agreement seemed near on the three disputed villages and the two large...