Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value of unlimited debate is not so much that it allows free expression as that it gives a desperate minority power to obstruct a majority which feels less strongly about the issue at stake. This is not a power which is used lightly; there have been few frivolous filibusters and almost none have succeeded. In most legislation the will of the majority prevails. But when a minority feels so imperiled by a bill that it is willing both to undergo an exhausting physical strain and to risk the wrath of fellow legislators by filibustering, it can do so. Free Senate...
What has distorted liberal thinking on this question is that free debate has been used almost exclusively to obstruct civil rights legislation. Such legislation now appears much less crucial to the cause of Negro equality than it previously seemed...
...been guided by a few simple and unchanging maxims about business and government. Today he is an intellectual fossil. His retirement will be a blessing because he gives some small measure of dignity to ideas whose only relevance to the U.S.'s pressing domestic problems is to obstruct their solution...
...major issues in the recent meeting of the staff of the Center for Research in Personality was the degree to which experiments in scientifically dubious areas such as psilocybin were a legitimate part of the training of graduate students. The converse issue was whether participation in such research might obstruct more conventional training...
...York Times Columnist Arthur Krock was frankly sympathetic toward Katanga's President Moise Tshombe. "It has not been demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together...