Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happens then? Nothing, anything, everything. "We are trying to overturn every entertainment convention-the 'sit here,' the 'look that way,' the 'dance over here,' " explains Cooper. The result is frankly freaky. On one platform, a bearded man lies supine, eyes staring, engrossed in the melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting...
Nixon, after a frantic conference with his civilrights squad, seemed to realize his Agnew-like blunder. Two days later, the retraction came. Picking up the hint, Ford led the House Republicans in an effort to overturn the Whitten rider...
...taut confrontation carries with it the prospect of still more violence, which in turn could lead to curtailment of traditional civil liberties. Some hard-core rebels of the farthest left would welcome exactly that. They reason that the resulting disorder could only weaken the system that they seek to overturn...
...husband and I were among the onlookers who were tear-gassed on Michigan Avenue. We thought it a minor discomfort to endure while the police attempted to control that frenzied, filthy, foul-mouthed mob of cretins. We watched these "innocents," as you called them, doing their "thing," i.e., overturning police motorcycles, setting fires on the sidewalks, rocking a van containing policemen in an attempt to overturn it, foisting signs in our faces reading "F- the draft," waving the Cong flag as they chanted "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh." Spare me the bleeding heart's account of how they were...
...President also took note of objections to the fact that Title II seeks to overturn several Supreme Court decisions on the legal rights of people accused of federal offenses. While the court held in the Miranda case that a defendant must be warned of his rights before evidence is admissible, the Crime Act says that such warnings are unnecessary as long as any confession made by a suspect is deemed voluntary. The bill also permits police to hold a suspect up to six hours-and longer in some cases-without an arraignment. Noting that these provisions apply only to federal...