Word: shocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past, a majority of the Court has often used due process, said Black, to "strike down laws which Justices found to be 'unreasonable,' 'arbitrary,' 'capricious,' or 'contrary to a fundamental sense of civilized justice.' What, for example, do the phrases 'shock the conscience' or 'offend the community's sense of fair play and decency' mean? I submit that these expressions impose no limitations or restrictions whatever on judges, but leave them completely free to decide constitutional questions on the basis of their own policy judgments...
...crusader than a nature-lover, but that's not a bad description: he is a crusader, a new muckraker, in some ways typical of a changed tone in what conservation ought to mean. At 55, he is agile and athletic, still a skilled mountaineer, with a prophet's shock of white hair. His voice has a slight, unstudied Westernness that permits him to be lyrical occasionally. When he describes some of the tremendously complicated problems of dealing with the earth as a closed system, they reduce to a transparent simplicity. He projects himself to an audience as an honest layman...
...First Shock...
...first shock came when Harvard's captain Bob Kaufmann climbed out of the pool after winning the 50-yard freestyle, got back up on the blocks, and took third place in the 200-yard individual medley. Kaufmann had not swum any event that included backstroke since Christmas. It was a carefully guarded secret that he had injured his shoulder, forcing him to give up backstroke or risk permanent injury. Kaumann's unexpected appearance in the I.M. was the first of several monkey wrenches that Crimson coach Bill Brooks threw into the Eli machine...
Your vote favoring Kennedy over McCarthy came as a great shock to me. My background first. I am a white haired fifty year old establishment lady who has fought tooth and nail for what the young people were telling us. I even gave up buying saran wrap in the Walter Mitty hope of converting production of napalm at Dow Chemical to better things. I rode in a jeep to Freedom Square in October and spent two nights on a bus with little to eat and almost two days standing around and walking with little to eat and not much chance...