Word: impeachable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Together, the three developments demonstrated that church-state disputes are reaching a level of emotional intensity not seen since conservatives mounted the drive to impeach Earl Warren. The campaign, as it happens, was fueled partly by the decisions, made when he was Chief Justice, that prayer or Bible readings in public schools violate the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion...
...here to impeach Mr. Wick or to cause him additional pain," said Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas) during a House Subcommittee Meeting last week, adding, "certainly, he and his associates have done a good enough job of that already." Brooks is certainly half right. Last week's revelation that the United States Information Agency (USIA) had blacklisted Coretta Scott King, Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.). Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader and Brooks himself from a government-sponsored speaking tour has publically embarrassed the agency. Harvard Professors John Kenneth Galbrath. Jorge I. Dominguez and Richard N. Cooper were also deemed untrustworthy...
...press be free. Said Jefferson: "It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press . . . I shall protect them in the right of lying and calumniating." Moreover, the press, however forceful, has no power to indict or impeach, no power beyond what is granted by its audience. A journalist can expose a situation, but cannot compel an indifferent public to change...
...single American national was in any way placed in danger or placed in a hostage situation prior to the invasion," insisted Ohio Democrat Louis Stokes. The Congressional Black Caucus denounced the intervention. Seven other Democratic Congressmen, led by Ted Weiss of New York, introduced a quixotic resolution to impeach Reagan for sending in the troops, which would, of course, go exactly nowhere. Just outside the White House on Saturday, a youngish crowd of at least 20,000 gathered to demonstrate their displeasure with the Grenada adventure and with U.S. military involvement in Central America...
When Reagan ended the speech with "God Bless America," shouts of "Hypocrite!" "Murderer!" and "Impeach Him!" rang...