Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, the Government has so far failed to flex its muscle to prevent unions from practicing racism. Beyond question, labor's power to deliver votes has played a part in such inaction. In return for promises not to discriminate, President Neil Haggerty of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction trades union received what he considers "personal commitments" from Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to let unions remain the sole judge of "the quality of our membership." President Nixon has made no such promise. Still, the Administration has yet to use its power under the 1964 civil rights law to seek injunctions against...
body, keep it afloat like a boat. They are connected by a jointed shaft that per mits the Coot to flex with the terrain...
...semi-permanent sessions of diplomats from 17 nations at the Palais des Nations in Geneva have worked out virtually all the disarmament agreements. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. have treated the consultations with increasing respect, while France-originally the 18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...battles. COME (for Committee On the Move for Equality), which mobilized Negroes behind the garbage men, plans fresh boycotts and picketing in a campaign to win more jobs, better housing, and improved educational opportunities for Memphis blacks. The new labor-civil rights coalition forged during the strike may soon flex its organizing muscle on behalf of Memphis' Negro hospital workers and Negro teachers. Memphis, in fact, has become so symbolically significant to the Negro cause, that Abernathy hopes to use it as a Deep South springboard for King's postponed Poor People's March on Washington next...
...keys to Mark's success are outsized, scooplike hands and a curious ability to flex his legs slightly forward at the knee-which allows him to kick anywhere from 6 in. to 12 in. deeper than his competitors. "Mark's whole body ls so flexible," says his father that the water just seems to slip past him. That flexibility also gives him an abnormally long stroke; in the butterfly he can swim the length of a 25-yd pool with only 13 strokes, while most swimmers require 15 or 16. "I'm slower...