Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However it may complicate the solution of some crimes, many experts see Escobedo as a spur to better police training, more computerized law-enforcement procedures, and faster development of scientific crime detection. Moreover, no matter how far the Supreme Court goes, a large number of suspects will always be "gatemouths," compulsive confessors who need no encouragement to announce their guilt. "Human nature saves us," says one California prosecutor. "People talk anyway." In Seattle, for example, police insist that a burglar recently emerged from a skylight to be confronted by two waiting cops with drawn guns. Their first words: "You have...
...other hand, new inflationary pressures are in the offing. On July 1, the Government will begin pumping out medicare payments at an annual rate of $2 billion; that will increase consumer income and capital investment in everything from nursing homes to hospital-supply plants, also spur consumer spending because people will have less reason to save for their...
...sexual morality, the traditional rules are giving way to "situation ethics"-meaning that nothing is inherently right or wrong, but must be judged in context on the spur of the moment. This is particularly true among the young, and many adults simply go along with what they feel they cannot change. Dr. Ruth Adams, incoming president of Wellesley, proposed that the college issue birth-control materials to the students. Chastity, however, is possibly not the most important tradition questioned by youth. Society expects the young to be rebellious, but the trouble today is that they don't even know...
...Trembling." Ever since the President decided on the spur of the moment to drop in on the Gridiron Club dinner last month, Washington has not quite known just where he will turn up next. He unexpectedly stayed for Mrs. Gandhi's black-tie dinner at the Indian embassy. Later in the week he popped over to a United Service Organizations dinner for Bob Hope at the Washington Hilton, presented the comedian with a plaque commending him for his entertainment of U.S. servicemen. "It's nice to be here in Washington," said Hope, "or, as the Republicans call...
Barricade of Boxes. Two days later, the general was back on the air with even better news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...