Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flym attempted to obtain a temporary restraining order to prevent M.I.T. from enforcing the injunction, arguing that the suit was not valid because it depended upon the assumption that the demonstration would be violent and there was no indication that this would be so. The injunction. Flym said, branded all demonstrators as troublemakers, "chilling" their constitutional rights of free assembly...
Some serious historians have worried about the parallels between U.S. and Roman history, but Reagan's approach is more polemical than historical. He selected phenomena from several centuries of Roman history and touched up the facts a bit to suit his moral. Reagan really should begin research on Sodom and Gomorrah. Somewhere between the lines he might find that S. and G. flamed out just as soon as the local bureaucrats began to fluoridate the water and teach sex education in the schools...
...third and final stage of a rumor's life, the information is tailored to suit the vendor's interests and emotional needs. Those who believe that McCartney is dead, for instance, are in part sublimating their fear of the grave. For whenever death visits another person, it must delay its appointment in Samarra with you. Frequently, the death of a public figure breeds a host of rumors about the supposed deaths of other public figures. Within hours after Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, rumors falsely consigned General George Marshall, Bing Crosby and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...revolt like a loyal party man. Once a decision is made in the department, he said at a news conference, the lawyers are obliged to carry it out. He fired the leader of the rebels, Gary Greenberg, who had refused to compromise his views while arguing a desegregation suit against an Arkansas school district...
Government lawyers cannot appeal Judge Timbers' decision against an injunction, but they plan to pursue a separate suit filed against the merger three months ago, also in New Haven. ITT executives, who in the meantime will go ahead and take over Hartford Fire, are indignant over the Justice Department's determination to press the case. They say that the Hartford acquisition carefully adhered to the Johnson Administration's antitrust guidelines-and they do not like having the rules changed in the middle of the game...