Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal advice, Nixon held just one meeting. It was a conference of a close quartet: Secretary of State William Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitchell. In the past, Laird and Rogers have privately advocated more urgent action to speed up troop withdrawals. Some White House observers assumed that Mitchell was there to help Kissinger argue for a more cautious troop policy that would enable the Administration to maintain negotiating pressure on Hanoi...
...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...known for his size or speed, Matte has been getting friendly jibes from teammates about his performance. "Matte leading the league in scoring is like me leading the XBA in scoring." jaked 5'11" Colt flanker Jimmy...
...Penn team was visibly shaken as it continued to control the ball but could never approach the Crimson goal. Harvard concentrated on clearing the ball to midfield and relied on the superior speed of its forward line. Pete Bogovich did a tremendous one-man job at midfield...
...Supreme Court may well rule on the Mississippi cases this week, and it is unlikely to show much patience with delays in desegregation; in recent years, it has repeatedly declared that the time for "deliberate speed" is over. Even so, the justices confront a hard choice. They may conclude that a desegregation decision in the middle of a school year would produce widespread disorder in Mississippi-and would risk a collision between the Court and the Nixon Administration...