Word: steering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germanic Languages Departments to grant carefully screened applicants junior-year-abroad under the Wayne State or Sweetbriar programs. In 1961 the authorization was extended to the History and Literature Department. Concentrators in all other fields are left high and dry, unless they can persuade their department chairman to steer the individual request through the Committee on Educational Policy and the Administrative Board--bureaucratic channels of which most undergraduates are unaware...
Even when Hubert got carried away -as he did at a Cleveland steer roast, when he urged his audience to "send up to heaven" a resounding Democratic victory that John Kennedy could hear -it didn't seem offensive...
...thirty-six years of service as Congressional representative from Massachusetts' ninth district, John McCormack has consistently led the fight in the House for passage of social legislation and other liberal measures. As Sam Rayburn's able assistant, McCormack helped steer through the 1940 Selective Service Act, the Lend-Lease Act and the Marshall Plan. As Speaker of the House he has been instrumental in passing bills in support of civil rights, tax reduction, conservation, and the war on poverty...
Warning the men to steer clear of any further racial clashes, Pike County Circuit Judge W. H. Watkins Jr. said he suspended the sentences because the men were "mostly young; all came from good families who were shocked at their involvement; and deserved another chance...
Judge Desmond's complaint is buttressed by some compelling testimony. In the current Atlantic, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York writes that in his busy jurisdiction bail bondsmen steer paying defendants to "a lawyer who will kick back to them a substantial part of the fee." Often this "lazy and incompetent" court hanger-on falsely claims that he can "fix someone" for a higher fee. Since he "seldom knows any law or reads any cases," his arguments in court are "so transparently hollow that it is not easy for most juries...