Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, no lawyer, turning full face against a fellow Democrat. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus: "Ours is a nation founded upon the rule of law. It is shocking to see a governor of one of the states calling out the National Guard, not to uphold the Constitution and orders of the Supreme Court but to defy them. Such action cannot be tolerated. It offends the concept of law on which our society is based...
...week before-compelling Russia to withdraw its U.N. charge that U.S. bomber flights were a "threat to peace." Now, accenting the positive, Henry Cabot Lodge went before the U.N. Security Council with a proposal to open the top of the world above the Arctic Circle to international inspection to guard against surprise aerial or missile attack. There were no strings attached. Here was an imaginative proposal, to make a start somewhere, and in an area not complicated by populations and boundaries, to break the cold...
Since all available policemen have been assigned to ticketing duty, it would be unreasonable to suggest that lawmen stand guard over Weeks Bridge. But the installation of adequate lighting facilities there would either frighten away nefarious juveniles or at least expose their machinations to all. The hue and cry might then be raised...
...that day the four men, defying the Government, the U.S. Navy, and the Atomic Energy Commission, all of which had given orders that no one was to enter the testing area, set sail from Honolulu for Eniwetok. In half an hour they were overtaken by a Coast Guard cutter and towed back to Hawaii. They have now been arrested for criminal contempt of court...
...even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers football club and a pro wrestler before turning to coaching. He assisted at Wake Forest and North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard...