Word: moot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also last week, 30 Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers took off from Guam, streaked 5,000 miles to rain 400 tons of high explosives upon a tiny strip of Viet Cong-held jungle. That sortie may have moot consequences (see THE WORLD), but day after day, other U.S. aircraft continued to plaster Communist targets both north and south of the 17th Parallel...
District Court held Lament's case to be moot. In San Francisco last fall, how ever, a Danish journalist named Leif Heilberg won his case hands down in the same kind of court when he sued for unimpeded delivery of a Chinese Communist magazine printed in Esperanto...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Mardon's conviction with a brief order explaining that all such sit-in cases have been rendered moot by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "We are glad Miss Walker's long ordeal is over," rejoiced the Atlanta Constitution in an editorial slap at Segregationist Judge Pye. "We only wish she had not had to go to Washington to get justice...
...Washington gives the go-ahead for everything the committee has asked for, Cambridge will be running only "pilot" projects this summer. Moot explains this caution: "Getting the wrong programs started could be a problem... Once you create something, it's hard to kill it, although you may have decided it's not a good program and you want to put your resources elsewhere...
Eventually how much Cambridge puts up in dollars--and consequently how much it participates in the poverty program--is a political question. And John Moot, who wants a non-political poverty program, must make sure that a non-political program is not one without strong political support