Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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North House Committee members said this week they believe 35 CDU members in the assembly pre-arrange strategy in caucus meetings, then vote as a bloc to "railroad" whatever they want through the assembly...
...railroad, then it's the Penn Central-it just doesn't work," Richard Bernstein '81, an assembly delegate from Mather House who is not a CDU member, said this week...
...Tuesday, the fourth day of the war, the Chinese advance resumed with a vengeance. A seemingly formless front rapidly developed two main, logical prongs of attack: one in the northwest on the railroad line leading south to Hanoi, the other in the the east on the major rail link that parallels Highway 1, the jugular thoroughfare from Friendship Pass. Both thrusts appeared to aim directly at Viet Nam's capital. At the same time, an auxiliary Chinese force, spearhead units of an estimated three more divisions, probed toward the coast for a possible end run aimed at cutting off Highway...
...demolishing New ton's basic assumption that time is absolute, that it is universally the same, and that it flows steadily from the past toward the future, Einstein used the following thought experiment: an observer standing next to a railroad embankment sees two bolts of lightning strike the tracks at the same time and thus concludes that they occurred simultaneously, one far to the east, the other an equal distance to the west. Just as the bolts hit, a second observer passes directly 'in front of him on a train moving at high speed from east to west...
...them. It was a cynical tribute to the CIA's tactics soon all the streets around Parliament Square were squeezed tight with pro-Shah demonstrators. Orators miraculously sprang from the crowd and called for the downfall of Mossadeq. The Shah's portrait was hung on a banner across the railroad station...