Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then stood to hear the prosecution charge that her novel "insidiously presents in factual style a denunciation of a community." The prosecution's unhappiness turned largely on her portrayal of local officials, including a judge, who join in what the court called "a lamentable series of acts" to quash a peasant strike organized by field hands who want better...
...adequately answered by Chalmers. It is difficult to believe that a Faculty which this fall approved two "radical critiques" courses virtually controlled by students, will jealously withhold the privilege of giving Gen Ed courses from instructors and teaching fellows. It is difficult to believe that traditionalists will predominate and quash an experiment that has so far been so popular with students. Difficult to believe, but a little bit frightening all the same...
Holy Amelia Bloomer! The draft, says Manhattan Attorney Stephen Fine, is illegal because it calls up boys and ignores girls. Seeking to quash a draft-evasion indictment against James St. Clair, a 19-year-old Fordham University undergraduate and antiwar activist, Fine startled Federal Judge Dudley Bonsai in New York City by arguing that the present law makes "an invidious discrimination based upon...
...case, with the prolonged, unpopular war in Vietnam and the anti-communist phobia latent in American hinterlands, legal and financial support for test cases is needed to quash this last-ditch try to bring back the good old days of Joe McCarthy...
Gesticulating, thumping the lectern and mangling his syntax, the usually supersmooth Ronald Reagan faced a packed audience of newsmen in Sacramento, Calif., last week to quash a columnist's accusation that his administration had harbored a "homosexual ring." He was only partially successful...