Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that wasn't it. The point is, the government decided that it had the right and the mandate to terrorize a significant group of citizens; to completely suspend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and any civil liberties we are used to having, in order to gas, drive, and club dissidents from its doorsteps. It wasn't that the government jailed us; it was that it declared war on us. The death machine brought out the full force of its fire-power to protect Washington, and it was awesome. The American government probably imposes order better than it does anything...
Although the Faculty left the decision to suspend classes to the discretion of each Faculty member, its resolution urged participation by "every member of the Harard Divinity School community . . . in whatever manner his conscience dictates...
WHILE Washington police scourged thousands of antiwar demonstrators, Rennie Davis grumbled to the press that Mr. Nixon had "suspended the Constitution" by denying the protestors the right to assemble peacefully. The President, of course, did not suspend the Constitution. Over in the Justice Department, Richard Kleindienst had hardly begun to use the emergency police powers legally available to the Administration. But radicals like Davis (who are, at heart, only the lost children of the ACLU) still fondly imagine that under crisis conditions the Constitution continues to define and limit acceptable law enforcement procedures. They believe that the Bill of Rights...
...Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations in North Carolina and one in Roswell, N. Mex., announced that they would suspend broadcasts of Army public-service messages...
...official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which controls Santee Swamp timbering projects, has agreed to suspend timbering in the area until a year-long study determines, among other things, whether there really is an ivory-billed woodpecker behind that call...