Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record that is not likely to be broken soon. Just before the Labor Day traffic jam, Pinellas County Prosecutor Alan Williams fired a hail of legal flak at Florida's aerial constables by refusing to prosecute one John C. Winslow Jr., charged with speeding over a bridge-causeway between Tampa and St. Petersburg. The prosecutor declared that he had no other choice because a state statute limits arrests without warrant to offenses committed in the arresting officer's presence. "I'm not criticizing the use of an airplane," explained Williams, "but a police officer [on the ground...
Kissinger argued that "the only way to escape this log jam is to stop talking about the past and try to see whether one can find comparable restraints on both sides to stop the shooting and begin the negotiations...
...Jam." Over the years, Powell's flamboyant aberrations have become an embarrassment to Congress. With leisure to spare for fishing trips in the Bahamas, he has stalled the Administration's crucial $1.7 billion antipoverty bill for four months; though the committee has approved the bill...
Fearful of the chairman's black-power demagoguery, committee members from cities with large Negro populations were loath to humiliate him. "We were all in a jam," admitted one rebel. Nonetheless, the panel that prepared the rules changes made only one concession to Powell: they agreed to his amendment giving the chairman control over hiring, firing and paying the staff, but obtained the right of the majority to veto his decisions...
...civil rights talkathon but also by delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...