Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergarments, like the Marshall Plan, are designed to lend support to needy areas. The help, however, is meant to be unobtrusive, and should not -via bulge, seam, ridge or twanging wire -make itself conspicuous. The U.S. foundation industry has looked for years for a brassiere that will support and uphold the female figure (and its component parts) without betraying its truss...
...there is a very active brainwashing society well organized in this country. I'm glad they are not afraid to speak up. Of course if they are in support of the House Un-American committee and against the Peace Corps and so-called Freedom Riders, and want to uphold Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, then they will probably be silenced by some federal court order...
...Nkrumah, Nikita rose to launch an attack on the U.N., declared that "even if all the countries of the world adopted a decision that did not accord with the interests of the Soviet Union and threatened its security, the Soviet Union would not recognize such a decision but would uphold its rights, relying on force. And we have the wherewithal to do this...
...accept every tariff-boosting recommendation put forward by the U.S. Tariff Commission. (Presidents Truman and Eisenhower rejected nearly two-thirds of the commission's proposed tariff increases.) Alarmed, New York's Republican Jacob Javits prepared a counterattack urging the Administration to take the initiative in fighting to uphold reciprocal trade...
...rights entrusted by the Constitution to its care." Despite his hints that the marshals would be jailed if they violated state law, Governor Patterson clearly had no authority to interfere with the forces of federal intervention. By their oath of office, state and city authorities are sworn to uphold federal as well as local law. And since In Re Neagle (1890)-in which the Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of a deputy marshal who killed a man while guarding a federal judge-U.S. Government officers have been held exempt from local law whenever the violation of a statute...