Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merrick Garland '74, the CHUL executive board member who will ask that consideration of the referendum be placed on the agenda, said last night that the board will probably consider the motion...
Soon after the grand jury begins hearing any evidence against Agnew, his attorneys will file a motion in federal district court seeking a restraining order to block any such testimony. It presumably will ask District Judge Walter E. Hoffman, who was appointed to oversee the Maryland grand jury's work, for the order. Even if the jury does not seek to indict Agnew, and its proceedings are designed to gather evidence for transmittal to the House, the Agnew lawyers will contend that this unprecedented action would be a breach of the Constitution's separation of power between...
...visual gags (the president of the steelworkers union taking a bubble bath in his hard hat), but he has all the ironic sense of a divorce-court magistrate, and the sort of teary sentimentality that allows him to present scenes of federal troops sacking a hippie camp in slow motion while Judy Collins sings Amazing Grace on the sound track. Nevertheless, one admires the vigor, if not the style, of his attack...
...watching a football scrimmage was that I was eager to learn what kind of team Harvard would offer this year. That reassured me for a while. Until it dawned on me that Harvard was running but one series of plays every time they had the ball. Man in motion left. Pitch left. Off tackle. Man in motion right. Pitch right. Off tackle...
Most likely, no. Congress ignored Rep. Robert F. Drinan's (D.-Mass.) impeachment motion that cited the illegality of the Cambodian bombings. When matters come to a serious discussion of what has always been "the unmentionable" in political life, many politicians will back away again. Senator Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), dimpled hero of the hearings, noted recently that although as many as 70 per cent of the American people believe Nixon has deceived them in some manner on Watergate, only 20 per cent actually favor impeachment. "A paradox?" he thundered. "No! Just the genius of the American political system...