Word: obstructionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have increased artillery firepower by 30%, laid out 40 military airfields and moved in more than 400 aircraft, including 150 MIG jets. Last year, the Swiss and Swedes reported that truce inspection in North Korea was "completely illusory." The U.S. called for its immediate abolition on the grounds that "obstructionist tactics on the Communist side have made [its work] impossible." Washington even promised Rhee that the U.S. would see to it that NNSC left Korea shortly. It is still there...
...grant that building an atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry these policies out. Just who in hell do these physicists think they...
...Soviet Union, of course also would never agree to give up the veto. Yet, in a conference on Charter revision, neither power would want to be branded as obstructionist. If the United States, for example either voted against a review conference or refused to consider abolition of the veto, the USSR would have an effective propaganda weapon to flaunt before the world...
...controversy will have a decisive effect upon next November's elections only if they come to a speedy, decisive conclusion. He felt it doubtful, however, because "The Senate is just too archaical, and they have to deal with a wild, clever man who has succeeded in employing his usual obstructionist tactics...
Senator Knowland's suggestion that the party policy committee in each house select chairmen from the senior committee members seems reasonable. Power of appointment and removal in this group would ensure party responsibility at least, and would make possible the replacement of incompetents. Under this kind of a system, obstructionist antics like those of Langer need not be tolerated...