Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Town, Chicago's version of Greenwich Village. The police then found it necessary to reassemble and drive the demonstrators-by now intermingled with passers-by and curious spectators-off the streets. A clergyman complained that "by pushing these young people from the park, the police create a larger law-enforcement problem than they have if they let the youths remain in the park...
...prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory federal meat inspection. Said Sinclair: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach...
...recognition of his pioneering role in advocating consumer-protection legislation, Lyndon Johnson invited him back to the White House for the first time since his lunch with Teddy Roosevelt. Fittingly, the occasion was the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which filled the few remaining loopholes in the law Sinclair had inspired...
...another, their independence encouraged by the fact that many are from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes sin rodeos (the nomads who don't beat around the bush...
Freddy Style. Menu writers seem to spend most of their time peering over each other's shoulders. Punctuation is repetitive, leading to this law: The quality of food in a restaurant is in inverse proportion to the number of semicolons and exclamation marks on the menu...