Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come back for what she calls justice: nothing less than the life of her then youthful betrayer Anton Schill (John Me Martin), now an amiable, bumbling shopkeeper and a town favorite. Responding in outrage, the townspeople treat Clara's offer as a macabre joke. However, they promptly proceed to plunge into debt on the supposition that Clara will bail them out without the sacrificial killing. Finally faced with the alternatives of penury or plenty, the citizens stage a trial in which Schill is condemned to death as a kind of enemy of the people...
...country not to resign. It is the clear duty of the House, through whatever procedures it chooses, to frame a charge of impeachment and to set itself a deadline for the task. If a charge is framed and voted, the Senate's clear duty is to proceed in a trial with all deliberate speed. May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received from a fellow Vermonter: "Either impeach him or get off his back...
...requires no charge, no evidence, no investigation, no due process, no specific grounds. Is that the kind of constitutional precedent we want to set? We doubt that our institutions ought to evolve toward changing Presidents with every change in the public mood. The House of Representatives ought to proceed with its impeachment investigation. If grounds for impeachment are found, so be it. But we are suspicious indeed of having a President forced from office in some extra-constitutional manner...
...named to it. That made him the first Speaker in almost 40 years with absolute control of the House's legislative agenda. Then, as crises began to envelop the presidency and vice presidency, he quietly ordered the House parliamentarian and legal experts to study how the House should proceed, if the holder of either office resigned or had to be impeached. As a result, the House was able to begin action on Ford's nomination and Nixon's possible impeachment without public wrangling. Also, Albert rebuffed Spiro Agnew's attempt to use the House to block...
Only a day before HEW revealed its intentions regarding Harvard's plan, Walter J. Leonard, the University's affirmative action coordinator, speculated that Harvard's prestige has forced HEW to proceed with particular caution in its look at the University's program. Events have repeatedly demonstrated that the orientation of HEW's commitment to affirmative action is more political than moral. It is in vogue--even in more conservative political circles--to support increased hiring of women in particular...