Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, only nine Republicans joined 21 Democrats to reject cloture. Dirksen mustered 23 Republicans, who together with 47 Democrats carried the motion 70 to 30-three votes more than were needed. It was the second time that the Senate had ever cut off debate on a civil rights bill...
...jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks...
...executive branch. Under Johnson's plan, a ten-man commission would review top executive salaries (such as the Cabinet's) every four years and lower-echelon salaries every year. The commission would propose pay changes that would automatically go into effect unless Congress acted to reject them within 60 days...
...rebels refused point-blank to join Imbert. "We want a constitutional government," declared a rebel spokesman. "We flatly reject any coalitions." Caamaño repudiated the ceasefire agreement, denounced the OAS, and declared that he would now place his case before the U.N. As for the U.S., the rebels railed against the troops hemming them in, ticked off lists of "atrocities," threatened an all-out attack. Said Caamaño's armed-forces minister: "It doesn't matter that we'll all be massacred. Unless the Americans clear out, we're going to attack...
...much-heralded replacement for the seniority system is given only a few pages at the end of the book. Bolling would have the Speaker nominate committee chairmen and members of the Ways and Means Committee (the Democrats' Committee on Committees) to be elected or rejected by the party caucus. New nominations would be made to replace rejected candidates. The caucus would also approve or reject decisions of the Ways and Means Committee on committee assignments. The advantages of this system are that they combine the effectiveness of a strong speaker and the representativeness of a powerful caucus...