Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locks are simple, straightforward devices; their relatives have been used for more than a century in underwater excavating. But to resist pressure, they must be bulky and fairly heavy. The cramped cabin of a U.S. Gemini has no room for them, and when the first U.S. astronaut ventures into emptiness, he will open a single hatch and expose the whole cabin to vacuum...
...pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
Unhealthy Resistance. The reasonable answer would seem to be: submit now and sue later for false arrest. It is legal to resist illegal arrest in 47 states, but the right goes back to a day when armed citizens combatted weak police to avoid harsh imprisonment. Today the equation is so changed that it rarely pays to resist...
...January 1961, Montgomery's rabidly segregationist Alabama Journal editorialized: "The federal courts are now running the public schools. The courts are gummed up with hundreds of cases as the South tries to resist herding incompetent and inexperienced voters to the polls and race mixing in the school rooms." Last week, in the wake of violence at Selma, Ala., the Journal had a far different message: "By dumb, cruel and vastly excessive force, we have made new civil rights legislation almost a dead certainty; we have stained the state and put the lie to its claims of peace and harmony...
...nation's banks have never been more prosperous, but their very prosperity has created some problems. Some shady elements have been attracted by the prospects of fast money, and even the Mafia and Murder Inc. have been tied to some bank difficulties. A few banks, unable to resist the lure of business on every side, have overextended themselves and met with woe. Eight banks were shut by state or federal authorities in 1964 and another four have failed this year-more than in any comparable period since the Depression...