Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...document included: 1) denials of the Army's charges that "improper means" were used to get favors for Private Schine; 2) a charge of "misconduct and possible law violation" by Assistant Defense Secretary Hensel; 3) 20 charges that Army Counselor Adams had tried to obstruct McCarthy's investigations in various ways; 4) four similar charges against Army Secretary Stevens...
...against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...whirlwind next struck at Tommy's parking garages and in a few gusts forced him to quit the gubernatorial race. A contractor named Dominic Piracci, who seemed to have a corner on the city's garage-building business, was convicted of fraud, conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Piracci and Tommy had long been friends, even before Piracci's daughter, Margie, married Tommy D'Alesandro...
...best sort of adventure, spiced with wit, but whose long suit is still action. The fact that the action goes nowhere, is never really resolved, and that the only discernable moral of the film is that continuity, clear story line and pointed action are not indispensable--these do not obstruct one's enjoyment of the picture. The only necessities are wonderful script, imaginative director and the kind of super-talented cast that is in Beat the Devil...
...frequently, is all right simply because you can mention a sexual-research project that proves you've got plenty of company. In this country there are large numbers of automobile drivers who have a habitual contempt for traffic laws. They speed, forget to signal, pass stop lights and obstruct fireplugs when they park. But their growing numbers do not make their crimes 'all right' . . . Sexual behavior, like any other kind, must be tested for Tightness or wrongness by your own conscience. Will it harm your community? Your family? You yourself? Then it is wrong, and you cannot...