Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aiding others under attack is fraught with more legal perils than protecting one's self. Most Americans find it outrageous that New Yorkers fail to aid fellow citizens who are being mauled by thugs on streets and subways. Yet no matter how cowardly New Yorkers may be, the fact is that under the law anyone who intervenes in an attack exposes himself to the possibility of severe penalties. If a good Samaritan repels an attacker too aggressively, or inadvertently jumps in on the wrong side, he may wind up under arrest for assault...
...measure's previous life had been fraught with difficulties. No sooner had he taken over as President than John Kennedy, who had campaigned on a strong and effective civil rights pitch, let it be known that he would deal with civil rights through administrative, not legislative action. One obvious Kennedy fear: that a civil rights bill sent to Congress would prove politically harmful by dramatizing, once again, the fact that Capitol Hill Democrats were far more deeply divided than Republicans on the issue...
...streets of Worcester, Mass., en route to another commencement address at Holy Cross College. There, he expressed again his lofty hopes for "the Great Society." Even if the cold war should end, Johnson warned, the world would find itself "on a new battleground as filled with danger and fraught with difficulty as any ever faced by man." The fight then, he said, would be "to build a great world society-a place where every man can find a life free from hunger and disease-a life offering the chance to seek spiritual fulfillment unhampered by the degradation of bodily misery...
...using a lot of backfield motion, shifts to new formations, and other tricks compound the defensive difficulties. Halfback Fred Lewis, a 210-pound cannonball with speed, presents the defense with plenty of problems no matter what the formation. His particular specialty is the end run, a play which is fraught with touchdown potential every time it is called...
...goodbyes to President Segni and Pope Paul VI, who presented him with the Vatican's highest decoration, the jeweled chain of the Supreme Order of Christ, which had not been given to a German statesman since Bismarck. Then der Alte headed for Paris and an emotion-fraught farewell visit with Charles de Gaulle, his enthusiastic collaborator in this year's Franco-German treaty of friendship...