Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, it is three hundred and thirty-two years now, and class spirit to uphold these traditions is more important than ever. Jubilee Weekend is only what you make it--you, Harvard's freshmen...
Looking as nonmilitary as he could in blue business suit and Moslem petji cap, the new President of Indonesia stared steadily down at his prepared text. "We will firmly uphold the principles of democracy," he told 828 mem bers of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress. "We are determined to carry out the wishes of the people." General Suharto, 46, had just been elected to a five-year term as President - but the wishes of the people had little to do with it. Despite his promises of popular rule, Suharto last week assumed almost total power over Indonesia...
...developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill. It took a roll-call vote to uphold the tradition of delaying such "business" until after hearing the President...
Despite its reluctance to uphold censorship, the Supreme Court has more than once hinted that laws carefully and narrowly aimed at creating a ban for juveniles might well be constitutional. Taking the hint, New York State passed a statute in 1965 making it a crime to sell to anyone under 17 any material that presents a salacious view of "nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse." Similarly inspired, Dallas enacted a municipal ordinance empowering a nine-man board to label films as "not suitable for young persons"; movie theaters can be fined $200 for admitting anyone under 16 to such...
...Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme Court could not uphold the rights of individual citizens in the face of deliberate use of oppression...