Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complained Clark, "eavesdropping is authorized without requiring belief that any particular offense has been or is being committed; nor that the property sought -the conversations-be particularly described. This leaves too much to the discretion of the officer executing the order. Secondly, authorization of eavesdropping for a two-month period," which the statute gives, is far too long. "Third, the statute places no termination date on the eavesdrop once the conversation sought is seized. Finally, the statute's procedure, necessarily because its success depends on secrecy, has no requirement for notice as do conventional warrants, nor does it overcome...
...secrecy point. "Now, if never before, the court's purpose is clear," said Black. "Since secrecy is an essential, indeed a definitional, element of eavesdropping, when the court says there shall be no eavesdropping without notice, the court means to inform the nation there shall be no eavesdropping, period...
...story RCA Building. Typical of his sentimental sojourns into jazz in recent years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period favorites as Don't Be That Way and Stompin' at the Savoy. Goodman's clarinet sound, although it missed some of the fiery flow of earlier years, was as limpid and nimbly melodic as ever...
...wonders today what so captivated her contemporaries, the answer is probably that she viewed the period as it liked to picture itself: a time of grace and intelligence, when irony could conquer sentimentality and laughter would always overwhelm tears. Her chief reputation was as a quipster, the Guinevere of the Algonquin Round Table. Hers was the tongue heard round the world. Her famed couplet, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses," not only set a style for lonely movie heroines but may well have spurred the development of contact lenses. During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly...
...first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries and Thomas to the moon. Upon landing they learn that they are not alone: the Czar's men have arrived first...