Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding.† ¶ In Manchester, Conn., the Chamber of Commerce and auto dealers protested bitterly to the chief of police because he was enforcing speed laws entirely by radar, and wary drivers were detouring around the town, taking their business with them...
...recently as 1941 the Cambridge Police chief declared: "I've been harassed by cheap politicians every day in the week and I've had political interference in my department for years. I don't mind doing favors for people, but I do mind being asked to obstruct justice...
Said Robertson later: "The United Nations Command now can go ahead and sign ... I have confidence that President Rhee will carry out his commitments. He has promised not to obstruct an armistice now or in the post-armistice period." It is understood that Rhee will take no action of his own for approximately six months-that is, until three months after the start of the political conference. In return, the U.S. promised South Korea substantial economic aid. and a security pact (with the explicit understanding that it requires Senate consent) to go to Rhee's aid if the Communists...
...vote on Bohlen showed that McCarthy has no substantial following in the Senate. He can obstruct, he can attract attention, he can embarrass. (So can Wayne Morse.) But the pundits who say that the Administration must either appease McCarthy or destroy him in all-out political war were proved wrong by last week's events. McCarthy is still using ammunition left around by the Truman Administration, and he has profited a little from tactical mistakes of the Eisenhower team. Certainly the first, and probably the second, are vote-getting assets for McCarthy...
Both Duncan and Gandhi were arrested-exactly as they had planned-when they rejoined Duncan's wife Cynthia, waiting in their automobile. Next day, along with 36 other defendants (6 whites, 18 Indians, 12 Africans), they were charged with "inciting Negroes to resist, break or obstruct" apartheid laws. Most white South Africans seemed to disapprove of Duncan's action. Reproving him for "deluding the Negroes," the liberal Johannesburg Star coldly observed that passive resistance, by frightening the whites, "strengthens the hand of reaction and repression...