Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they got there. Perhaps a technician had to dump them in the Occupation. Perhaps they were even considered rejects." Disdaining his rightful line in the Social Register, he raised black Angus cattle on his 350-acre Virginia estate, where he was known to the horsy set for the tack shop he ran as a hobby...
...declined to prosecute on the ground that the Negroes were guilty only of an insignificant slip of memory. But Cox persisted, and last fall the Negroes were indicted by a state grand jury. The Government countered by arguing that states cannot prosecute alleged federal perjurers. Cox tried a new tack when a federal grand jury began looking into civil rights violations throughout Mississippi. Somehow that jury was persuaded to see things Cox's way. It indicted the Negroes, and then Cox ordered U.S. Attorney Robert E. Hauberg to prepare and sign the indictment...
Painful Precedents. Black sharply dissented, but the vaguely worded rule remained on the books to cause case-by-case confusion for the next two decades. In 1947, the Court took a similar tack in Adamson v. California, saying that the Fifth Amendment did not forbid states to pressure a defendant to testify against himself. Calling this "an incongruous excrescence on our Constitution," Black offered an elaborately researched dissent arguing that the 14th Amendment's framers themselves intended the Bill of Rights as a shield against the states. He won over three other Justices (Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge). A fifth vote...
...whose campaign buttons read "Part of the Way with LBJ," took a different tack: "I am concerned," he said, "not with building a great society, but with building a society that is concerned with human needs...
Later, Dr. Atl became dismayed at the leftist tack that the artists he had encouraged were taking. As for himself, he preferred fascism, publishing almost daily newspaper articles during World War II in praise of it. Politics finally palled, and the old man returned to his volcanoes. Last week Dr. Atl's fire finally went out at the age of 89. President Lopez Mateos ordered his burial in Mexico's pantheon of famous...