Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Decencies. As realistic men, the jurists had no illusions that these vital safeguards to liberty would sweep the earth overnight. "Our business here," said India's ex-Supreme Court Judge Vivian Bose, "is to see whether we as lawyers, judges and jurists cannot stir the conscience of the world into insisting that there shall be certain common decencies for all men in all lands." To some it might seem improbable that the conscience of the world would ever greatly affect the actions of totalitarian rulers. But the men who met in New Delhi last week had behind them...
...Coffman took the 100-yard butterfly, Jim Schroeder the 100-yard back-stroke, and John Austin the 100-yard breast-stroke. John McJennett extended the Crimson sweep to the dives with still another first place...
...word spread and was confirmed by Moscow radio, the U.S. recognized the sweep of the new Communist challenge, greeted it with respect. President Eisenhower, who had sent no message to the U.S.S.R. about Sputnik I, got off congratulations to the U.S.S.R. scientists for "a great stride forward in man's advance." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson observed that the U.S. is "not going far enough fast enough...
...86th Congress convenes this week, Senate liberals of both parties see in the 1958 Democratic electoral sweep a mandate for civil rights legislation. But the path to civil rights-and, in fact to any legislation that a minority wants to fight to the death-is blocked by the prospect of filibuster. The liberals' first major effort, therefore, is aimed at changing U.S. Senate Rule XXII-under which it is virtually impossible to get cloture, i.e., to close off filibusters. What the Rule XXII fight is about...
...health; the vexed question of racial integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...