Word: two
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed...
...South Africa and Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then became brighter. It was interpreted to be the tell-tale signature of a two-kiloton nuclear blast...
...other world capitals, South Africa's possible possession of the bomb was at least a distant menace to international security. At the U.N., which imposed an embargo on arms shipments to South Africa two years ago, the General Assembly called on Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to conduct an investigation. In Washington, the House subcommittee on Africa ordered an inquiry. With both Pakistan and Israel also suspected of having or developing a nuclear capacity, the cause of nonproliferation was hardly being served by the prospect that the club was getting less exclusive...
...1960s, under Chief Justice Earl I Warren, the Supreme Court fashioned I a goad for social progress out of two 14th Amendment phrases-due process and equal protection of the laws-with specific application to civil rights and criminal law. Liberals praised the court for championing the rights of the traditionally powerless-blacks, the poor, criminal defendants. Others denounced it for excessive zeal and social meddling...
With some success: Burger-inspired innovations like federal court administrators have helped make judges measurably more productive. Burger's off-the-court duties consume as much as a third of his time. "The Chief Justice has two jobs," says Powell. "The rest of us have one." Says White: "I have a feeling Burger gets refreshed by his involvement in other duties, such as being chairman of the Judicial Conference. It's like us going to the beach...