Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Operating with Security Council sanction-and aided in large measure by U.S. pressure on Israel to let the surrounded Arab troops be resupplied-the U.N. Emergency Force began to bring food and water through Israeli lines to the beleaguered Egyptians. Beyond that mercy mission, the role of the peacekeeping force was uncertain. It faced unfortunately some of the same handicaps as did a similar force that attempted to keep the peace in Gaza and Sinai before Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered it out in May 1967, thus paving...
Contrary to the temper of the times, wrote Federal Judge Leon Yankwich in a 1938 law-review article, Johnson refused to "sanction extreme measures against the defeated South." A flood of congressional resentment finally broke over him in 1868 after he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and hard-line Reconstructionist, who had become an angry Johnson...
...piece red-coated University of Houston Cougar band blared such anomalous songs as Jesus Christ, Superstar while comely majorettes did a Rockettes routine out front. Even Umpire Jerome Morton got into the act, wearing a modish gray velvet tuxedo and red ruffled shirt that the U.S.L.T.A. would surely never sanction...
...with the sanction of a novelist was going to look into the unspoken impulses of some of his real characters. At the end, if successful, he would have offered a literary hypothesis of a possible Marilyn Monroe who might have lived and fit most of the facts available. If his instincts were good, than future facts discovered about her would not have to war with the character he created...
...repulsive. I understand that wiretapping under court surveillance for specified matters of national security and against organized crime is a tactic that has led to some very good results, which could not have been obtained otherwise. But surreptitious wiretapping for political reasons is offensive to me. I would never sanction listening in on somebody else's personal conversations...