Word: disarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its apparent insensitivity to Negroes, the Nixon Administration lobbied last week to disarm legislation intended to sabotage Southern school desegregation. At issue was the "Whitten amendment," a booby trap tacked on to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's $17.8 billion appropriations bill by Representative Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi...
...other hero is sent to an obscure African country to set up an industrialization program. While there, he discovers that the inhabitants are mutants: they do not make war and can disarm any hostile feeling toward themselves. It's real, but it does not make the news...
...hold the line on wages is far more likely to stir opposition. Giscard indicated that the government would try to hold wages to a 4% rise during negotiations next month, matching the increase so far this year in the cost of living. To sweeten the medicine-and partially disarm the opposition-the minister slightly eased the tax load and promised to raise family allowances for low-income groups, as well as to increase old-age pensions for everybody...
...secrecy that was supposed to surround his thoughts, Nixon must have known that one of the Senators would talk. How much was the President revealing his actual intent, and how much was he attempting to disarm his critics? It could have been a mixture of both. While the negotiations go on, Nixon obviously has nothing to gain by trumpeting his quids before the other side can respond with a quo or two. At home, though, Nixon can gain time and patience with hints that the end is in sight...
...torn world where nonaggressive, peace-loving women outnumber men, why has the female instinct for serenity not determined the political climate? Tiger, who holds that the male instinct for dominance is today as much a menace as a blessing, suggests that it may be time for the hunter to disarm himself by throwing his weight around in places where no one gets hurt. He has one small but eminently practical suggestion for housing developers and city planners: Incorporate "men only" havens into their designs. "Men 'need' some haunts and/or occasions which exclude females," Tiger writes. "There remains...