Word: writs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mandatory membership, Buckley maintained, was "a modern writ of indenture" and violated his right of free speech, not to mention two other constitutional guarantees. Buckley, asked by a reporter about the "showmanship" involved in his weekly political talk show, replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
Mother Nature dumped 27.9 inches of snow on Cambridge this month, more snow than the city has seen in December since 1947, and Cambridge politicians are still trying to get it cleaned up. On Christmas Eve City Manager John Corcoran obtained a writ from Superior Court and ordered Public Works employees to work overtime on snow removal...
Local commanders are free to apply the Z-grams in their own fashion, and wherever the Navy writ runs, the fresh breezes of innovation and experimentation in listening, in correcting, in treating sailors like adults, are blowing...
...Meadlo was claiming Fifth Amendment protection against selfincrimination. The Government has not attempted to prosecute any of the servicemen now out of the Army. The prosecution offered Meadlo a grant of immunity signed by Major General Orwin Talbott, commander of Fort Benning. Meadlo's lawyer argued that the writ was worthless, that his client might conceivably be tried by some special tribunal, U.S. or foreign, for war crimes...
President Lincoln attempted to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the first two years of the Civil War. When that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Congress expressly authorized him to suspend it, with safeguards, for the duration...