Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less acute than the need for new ways to use it," I suggest the following: that the Federal Government establish a national council for ideas, made up of representatives from various Government departments, business and labor, plus farm, religious and educational leaders, to receive suggestions to fight poverty and strengthen human rights. As matters now stand, individuals with ideas must trudge from department to department, only to be told finally that there are no provisions in the budget for new ideas. If a commission were to act on proposals and give Ks approval, this might win acceptance for suggestions that...
These pundits feel that in creating the advisory Council, Kennedy will strengthen his own hold over the party...
...strengthen the Fourth Amendment, Douglas argued, the court should have required the Lewis-case narcotics agent to get a search warrant, for which he had probable cause. In Hoffa, even though Douglas voted to dismiss on technical grounds, he denounced the Government for " 'planting' a friend in a person's entourage so that he can secure incriminating evidence." In Osborn, Douglas argued that even prior judicial approval of Vick's bugging violated the Fourth Amendment ban against a search designed to uncover anything more than the loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted...
...McCarthy, who clearly dislikes Johnson, inclines to believe that he is not, in fact, one of Johnson's favorites. "I never felt that Johnson would choose me for his running-mate for the sake of having me around," McCarthy says, "but only because I might strengthen the ticket. After the Republicans nominated Goldwater, our ticket didn't need any strengthening...
These clues strengthen Kuiper's belief that Copernicus was formed by the impact of a comet, one of three or four that have hit the visible side of the moon during its 4½-billion-year lifetime. He estimates that the comet weighed a million million tons, had a nucleus ten miles in diameter, and crashed into the moon at a speed of 35 miles per second. The explosion produced by the stupendous collision was intensified by the comet's high content of ice expanding into steam on impact. The resulting blast produced a crater 60 miles across...