Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, powerful lobbies attempt to thwart all efforts to get major tax reform through Congress, even though nearly everyone agrees that today's system bad ly needs a total overhaul. Second, re form makes taxpayers themselves uneasy because they are unwilling to give up the certainty of a deduction in return for only a promise to lower tax rates. In Federal Tax Reform: The Impossible Dream ?, Tax Experts George F. Break and Joseph A. Pechman observed: "Circumventing this dilemma is a task worthy of a Solomon...
...Chief Justice Howell T. Heflin was sharply taken aback. "Let's get around the Supreme Court on this one if we can," a senior justice had just announced. That was five years ago. Alabama's high court, like those of other Southern states, was still trying to thwart the Supreme Court of the United States-even after a decade and a half of reversals by federal judges. But shortly after the new chiefs swearing-in a secretary at the marmoreal Montgomery supreme court building shrewdly guessed that "things are going to be different around here. Mr. Heflin just...
...Americans. The poor and oppressed of the world therefore expect Americans to understand and support the struggles of other peoples to be free and united, even if freedom and unity cannot be won peacefully. We expect that America will be the last nation, not the first, to try to thwart, pervert or destroy the real independence of other nations...
...search by guards who also rummage through purses and briefcases; photographs are taken of each new visitor. All the defendants (except one who is on bail) are shackled at the ankles and wrists and are chained around the waist to chairs that are bolted to the floor-presumably to thwart escape attempts. Three TV cameras monitor everything in the court, and a bulletproof, multilayered, Plexiglas shield separates spectators from judge, jury, lawyers and defendants...
When Iceland's patrol boats attempted to thwart British fishing by cutting the trawlers' costly nets and towlines, British fishermen demanded protection. London responded by ordering Royal Navy frigates into the area to shield the trawlers from the Icelandic boats. What often followed was a seaborne game of "chicken." Ships of the two countries, in fact, came so close together in the choppy waters that they collided dozens of times. To tiny Iceland (pop. 219,000), the conflict again became a matter of David's facing down Goliath. But it was also a matter of economic survival...