Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Dolly! seemed about to expire three months ago, for example, Merrick restaged and revitalized the show with Pearl Bailey and an all-black cast, leaving Fox with $2,000,000 worth of sets, Barbra Streisand on hand, and no place to go. Fox is now seeking a legal gambit to foreclose on Dolly!, but Merrick is unflapped. "After Pearl, it'll be Liberace," he mused. "In that red dress. Coming down that staircase...
Check. Applies to all means, legal or otherwise, of breaking up an attack. Basic is the body check, which is similar to a football block and carries some of the same restrictions: it cannot be thrown from behind or below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender...
...criminal trial, Judges John M. Murtagh and J. Randall Creel said that Bruce had "clearly debased sex and insulted it," in addition to using basic English synonyms for incest, sodomy and excrement. Thus, they ruled, Bruce had exceeded all three of the U.S. Supreme Court guidelines that currently determine legal obscenity. These guidelines state that material is obscene if it appeals dominantly to prurient interest, breaches contemporary standards relating to the description or presentation of sexual matters, and "utterly" lacks redeeming social value...
...Approved a $10,000 study of pre-paid legal insurance, which would provide for some legal expenses in much the same way that medical insurance covers doctors' fees...
...reason to be jittery over what debate on the larger questions of the war may uncover. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a sore wound for the Administration last week with its hearing on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which is the closest thing the President has to a legal excuse for waging war on North Vietnam. It is hard to prove that the United States ship provoked the attacks that led to he step-up of our involvement, but it is clear that the Administration was dishonestly selective in what it chose to reveal to Congress...