Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court took a significant and courageous step last week in striking down four ancient laws of the Common-wealth--specifically statutes making it a crime to be a vagrant, a tramp, a vagabond, or a suspicious person abroad in the nighttime and unable to give a satisfactory account of himself. They were laws not often enforced, but it was precisely their erratic and necessarily arbitrary application that made them dangerous...
...first touchdown play of the game, Dowling pitched out to Hill, in motion to the right. Yale's star halfback galloped toward the sideline, pursued by five Princeton men. Dowling streaked down the opposite side of the field, with a three-step lead on the defensive safety. Hill stopped, turned, and launched a bomb to Dowling, who grabbed the ball on Princeton's 38 and took it all the way home...
...amounts to a victory, the sacrifices which were made to bring about House passage this week cripple the measure's effectiveness. At a time when bitter unrest is growing at an unprecedented rate in the ghettos of our major cities, the nation can ill afford this sort of backward step in the war on poverty...
...lines of the Spanish Inquisition or the witch trials. Or "reintroduction of slavery in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail surprisingly little revision; the logical first step would be the adoption of some form of universal military service...
...desegregation case. It was quickly apparent to him that a majority of the court was going to strike down the separate-but-equal rule, which had been challenged in Kansas and three other states. Well aware that an order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences. He set out to write that single opinion himself, and after many conferences, revisions and shifts, he brought it off. Separating Negro children "from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race," said...