Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court of Appeals decided last week to uphold a 1969 Federal Communications Commission ruling taking the license for broadcasting on Channel 5 from WHDH, and giving it to BBI, ending a sixteen-year-old legal battle...
...play Conduct Unbecoming, with a code of ethics, clique loyalties, and a voracious fondness for pig-sticking and whisky. One of the subalterns, 2nd Lieut. Arthur Drake (Paul Jones), has come to the regiment with tunes of glory lilting in his head and an earnest determination to uphold the honor of soldiering. The other, 2nd Lieut. Edward Millington (Jeremy Clyde), the son of a general, is disdainfully disenchanted with the military. A kind of Victorian dropout, he intends to get busted and return to the bliss of civilian life. Millington quickly breaks regimental protocol and gets himself cordially detested...
...last week President Richard Nixon dramatically flew into the South to assert the prestige and weight of his office in behalf of cooperative acceptance of the law of the land. "The highest court has spoken," he told his Southern audience, and it is "the responsibility of the President to uphold...
...brave young prosecutor, whose real-life name is Christos Sartzetakis, had been elevated to a judgeship because of his work in the case. In 1968, the colonels dismissed him from the bench, along with 29 other judges, for "political bias and failure to uphold the prestige of the judiciary." When Lambrakis was killed in Salonica, another deputy, George Tsarouhas, was brutally beaten. In 1968, Tsarouhas was arrested by the junta for subversive activities. On the way to police headquarters in Salonica, he died. According to the official police report, he had suffered a "heart attack...
Falsely, perhaps, Soviet authorities had felt they could depend on the Kronstadt sailors to uphold the gains of the Bolshevik victory. Inveterate enemies of Tsarist autocracy, the sailors had risen decisively against both Nicholas and the mildly reformist Provisional Government. They had propelled the Communists to victory at the Winter Palace, and the valiant support which they rendered the fledgling regime during the stormy days after the October insurrection had prompted Minister of War Leon Trotsky to hail them as "the pride and glory of the revolution...