Word: sacrosanctity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes (84%) of any in the U.S., and Negroes hold a 7,000 to 2,000 voter registration advantage. Amerson's showdown victory was still a considerable accomplishment. Few men in the rural South are more powerful than the local sheriff, and the office is the most sacrosanct of white preserves. With no declared opposition remaining, Amerson seems certain to win the November general election...
...most damaging drumfire of criticism, day after day, came from a police department that over the years had become a powerful and sacrosanct kingdom unto itself. As part of his platform to save the city from despair and dissension, Lindsay had pledged to create a civilian review board to investigate complaints of police brutality. The incumbent commissioner and the department as a whole objected violently to such "interference...
...bill could have been nearly $5 billion a year higher had not McNamara brought a management revolution to the Pentagon. Coldly weighing every decision on its merits, he has frequently rejected the once sacrosanct proposals of his military chiefs, demanding documented facts to support opinion. Obsolete, political and redundant programs-many of them pet projects of brass and politicians-have virtually been eliminated...
Somewhere Else was certainly the place to be. In congressional debates over farm policy, whose essential philosophy has long been accepted as sacrosanct, controversy generally rages over such red-hot issues as higher support prices for cotton and how to finance them. (They stayed at 30? a Ib. of which 9? for the first time will come directly from the Treasury...
Flexible Tools. Most of the shackles, of course, remain in place. Party dogma is still sacrosanct; when newspaper discussion comes too close to sensitive issues, the party simply chokes it off. While most Western broadcasts are no longer jammed (the jamming equipment has been moved eastward to blank out Radio Peking), non-Communist Western newspapers are still banned in Russia. When the magazine Kommunist recently urged the Russian press to increase its news coverage, its aim was not so much to free the press as to meet the competition. "We have to admit that bourgeois news agencies have achieved...