Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman football team unveiled a newly-acquired serial attack Saturday as they overpowered Princeton, 20-3. The Yardlings completed 10 out of 15 pass attempts while exhibiting outstanding line strength to stall the Tiger attack throughout the game...
...vote for the Democratic ticket as well as for his own candidacy for reelection on the ground that solid Southern representation in the Congress would keep integration at bay. Boasted Democrat Eastland: as a result of his strong leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was able to stall or kill 23 civil rights bills in 1957 and 49 in 1960. "I don't always agree with Lyndon Johnson, but you have to give him credit. He took everything relating to integration out of those civil rights bills [that did pass] ... He has always opposed Congress' implementing...
N.A.A.C.P. lawyers promised that, no matter whether Davis accepts his summons or not, Negro first-graders will show up at white schools on opening day, Sept. 7. Even some convinced segregationists felt that, at best, Davis' maneuvers would only stall the inevitable a little. Lloyd Rittiner, president of the Orleans Parish school board, had three little words for Davis' catfish caper: "It won't work...
Even Arizona's nomination of her favorite conservative son, Senator Barry Goldwater, was meant more as a "symbol of an open convention"--like the playful nomination of Joe Smith in 1956--than as a serious attempt to stall the inevitable Nixon victory...
...Kishi was still determined to sweat out final ratification of the treaty. The Socialists mustered their forces to demand a Diet recess, which would stall off ratification. Demonstrators seethed around the Diet building. Thousands of students attended the funeral of their "Joan of Arc," Michiko Kamba, and a flower-bedecked altar was set up at the spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi...