Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity, but it did allow the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to be sued. Presumably, the Court could order the Clerk of the House to inscribe Powell's name on the list of members, but it would be powerless to force the House to stop treating him as a non-member...
...order. But the fact is that in "hard core" cases the social agencies, by their own admission, have failed. As a result, the police have a problem: the ghetto youth, whose life has repeatedly taught him to respect only physical power, has only limited respect for the powerless policeman. Part of the answer to gang crime, then, is a reevaluation of the "be tough" policy. Putting these youths on the receiving end of police bullets or nightstick often opens their eyes to right and wrong. The hard facts of the situation require that, oftentimes, gang guns will have...
Police went after a few of the bombadiers, but they were pretty powerless against this sort of attack, all 3000 of them. They stood around about every 100 feet looking uncomfortable and humorless, but striving for that "objective" attitude which their chiefs had announced they would maintain. One officer, however, betrayed his feelings when two girls asked if they could cross in front of a part of the parade that was being held up at an intersection. "They might abuse you, but go ahead," he said...
...already powerless, why should Mao unleash what Peking radio called "mass rallies wrathfully denouncing the crimes" of Liu and vowing "to resolutely destroy him?" Best explanation: Liu is the symbol of continuing resistance to Mao's revolution throughout the party and cadre structure, which Liu himself spent 20 years building. A Red Guard leader addressing a Peking rally allowed as much, explaining that "final accounts" must be settled against Liu because "only by destroying his sinister headquarters can we ensure the recapture of the party, and political, financial and cultural power...
...establishment of a political power base in the Negro ghetto -- met with Rustin's qualified approval. "Of course, when I go to Walter Reuther," he said, "Reuther has the upper hand." This stems from the fact that the Negro has little to bargain with. In his present disorganized and powerless position, he is of necessity the junior partner in any alliance...