Word: suit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure does nothing-directly -to conquer prejudice or poverty. Moreover, enforcement may prove forbiddingly difficult since a Negro who is refused housing because of his race must first appeal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, then file suit in the courts. Yet the psychological effect of the act upon developers, homeowners and Negroes alike will open many doors. For the first time by federal law, a Negro in the U.S. is as entitled as any white-or more accurately, four-fifths as entitled-to buy or rent any house or apartment that he can afford...
...fellow who did it to him. But what if a complicated legal fight is necessary to secure satisfaction, and its cost promises to be far more than the amount recovered? Sometimes in such cases, the only answer is a legal phenomenon called a class action-that is, a suit filed by the person wronged on behalf of himself and unnamed hundreds or thousands of others who can be classified with him as similarly wronged...
Silvers was talking to people on the corner in a British accent and a corduroy suit...
...Midland, a member of the commissioners court was elected from each of four districts*, but the one who represented almost all of the city of Midland had many times as many constituents as the three rural representatives put together. As a Midland resident, Mayor Hank Avery objected, and filed suit. Since the commissioners were regarded as the general ruling body of the county by the Supreme Court majority, it had no hesitation in halting the rural overrepresentation...
...arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...