Word: inhibit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Either way it ruled, the court was bound to set a precedent. If it did nothing, legislatures would have a green light to keep out or effectively inhibit all dissenters. Yet if it overruled the Georgia house, it would move the judiciary -if only tentatively -into a hitherto sacrosanct area of legislative prerogative. No court, either federal or state, had ever before overruled the right of a legislature to judge the qualifications of its own members. The Bond case involved such a clear-cut violation of freedom of speech, however, that the precedent set by the court may have only...
...emphasize their importance; (b) grades were never intended to affect in any way the military status of a student; (c) grades are not a solid criterion for selection of recruits since they very so wildly among professors, departments, and colleges; (d) self-protective grade-grubbing in many cases may inhibit intellectual experimentation -- a student will hesitate to take a course that he might not do well in, but in which he might be interested; (e) to divide students into quartiles or thirds may force the Selective Service to choose between students whose academic averages are virtually the same...
...defeat of a Faubus candidate in the party primary, and finally by Rockefeller's victory over Jim Johnson, is in a state of unaccustomed disarray. Moreover, the new Governor will give the Republicans control of each of the county election commissions, and that will tend to inhibit construction of a new statewide Democratic machine. Many of the 50 freshman Democrats elected to the legislature have no ties with the party establishment, and may be amenable to cooperating with a new and popular Governor...
...John Lindsay's civilian-dominated police review board, set up last summer to hear and sift charges of police malfeasance or brutality. Most top politicians of both parties campaigned for the board. The police bitterly opposed it, and the majority (63%) of voters agreed that the board would inhibit the cop on the beat and send the crime rate soaring. The board was summarily killed...
...mark of courage for anyone to consent to a Bacon portrait. In fact, the painter rarely has his subject present, prefers to work from photographs strewn about his London studio. Says he: "Sitters inhibit me; if I like them, I don't want to practice before them the injury that I do to them in my work. In private, I can record the fact of them more clearly...