Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention at all to Bobby, or to his sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith, who flew into Aspen with her husband a day later. Jackie negotiated a deal with the frustrated press photographers by agreeing to a ten-minute session provided she would then be free. Gawkers were at a minimum, and the Secret Service men found little to do. When Jackie and the kids were on the practice slope, two of them stood guard, calling out "No pictures" to anything in a parka that came too close. One night two agents accompanied Bobby, Jackie and the Smiths on a brief visit...
...This would mean speeds on the order of a couple of hundred miles an hour at the minimum," the M.I.T. professor said. Counting time to and from the airport, this would achieve about the same speed as present air travel...
...step down has now reached absurdly tempestuous proportions. Moderates have begun to realize that if the oust-Burch campaign gets out of hand, the result might alienate G.O.P. conservatives-perhaps even precipitate a third-party movement. Thus, the moderates were hoping that Burch might be eased out with a minimum of fuss and a minimum of bruised conservative feelings...
...rule had a short but fruitful life. Under it, an anti-poll tax bill, housing and minimum wage acts, the bill establishing the National Science Foundation, Alaska and Hawaii statehood measures, and several other bills were called to the floor. The threat of the rule forced the committee to act by itself on other occasions. But the rule s success was its downfall; when the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition came back into power in 1951, the 21-day rule was repealed immediately...
...doubt Watson believes he is just extending necessary courtesy to the FBI. But if he really wanted to "help and protect students," as he claims, he would see the conflict between his words and his potentially harmful actions and curtail his contact with the FBI to the minimum formality...