Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa did his personal bit to uphold his union's reputation last week as he barked through an eight-hour sitting before Arkansas' John McClellan's labor rackets committee, chewed out a torrent of words that filled almost 400 pages of transcript. When he was finally excused. Boss Hoffa walked out of the hearings no more damaged-and not a whit nearer to respectability-than when he first sat down...
...replace Vargas as Defense Secretary, Garcia named Alejo Santos, a ruthless political operator, who piously announced that his goal as Defense Secretary would be to "uphold civilian supremacy over the military...
Congress, says Burnham, is "the one major curb on the soaring executive and the unleashed bureaucracy." Rights and liberties written into law "have no practical meaning" unless there is an independent institutional power to uphold the law against the claims and encroachments of the executive power. Lacking any popular mandate, the courts are not powerful enough to withstand the executive power without Congress' help. "No Congress," he warns, "no liberty...
...team of 1959 hopes that it may be reinstated. Its spirit and interest in the game has been higher than in past years and its members are eager to prove to the college that they can uphold the traditions and respect of Harvard. All they ask is that they be given an equal opportunity...
...happened in 1956. Like Smith, Kennedy tried to get it talked out early by stating his position: "Whatever one's religion in his private life may be," said he in answer to a Look reporter's question, "for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts-including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." The Catholic press across the U.S. charged Kennedy with taking a "religious test" for public office, raising an issue where none exists on division of church and state...