Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well when? We'll furnish transportation...
Attempting to furnish non-professional, and not-very-time-consuming theater, the drama workshop cannot polish a play as Pinter's requires. It chose to present this work as a "reading-in-motion"; the actors carried scripts to save themselves the extra work of memorizing...
...valuation, which in Savannah is about 25% of the market value. Says a civil rights lawyer: "We took the six largest office buildings in Savannah and looked at their encumbrances and their tax valuation. We found that all these buildings together would not be enough to furnish a $15,000 peace bond." Since the judge's terms make it financially impossible to put up a bond, the accused goes to jail without ever having been convicted of any crime...
...would be a shame to ask the Negro once again to accept a half-loaf measure. The Kennedy bill, however, provides more than half a loaf. It would furnish the means for desegregating public accommodations, for speeding up school integration, for ensuring the right to vote, and for facilitating the voluntary desegregation of housing and employment. It is the most sweeping civil rights measure ever presented to Congress by an American President. It ought to be passed and passed soon; afterwards the gaps it leaves can be filled...
...process of law"? In 1942, in Belts v. Brady, the Supreme Court held that a defendant's right to counsel in criminal prosecutions was not "fundamental," and therefore did not fall within the scope of the clause. In short, said the court, a state did not have to furnish counsel for an indigent defendant. In ruling on Gideon's appeal, the court briskly overturned the Betts decision, held that "in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel...