Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried out that the Prohibition Amendment had disastrously deprived states of freedom to make their own laws and that "in 1932 my party was overwhelmingly voted out of office, and not the least of the issues were bread and booze." He insisted that "the whole burden of my argument has been: go back to the people." He intimated that the Supreme Court had taken on powers well beyond its right, then thundered in conclusion Brutus' line justifying the assassination of Caesar: "Not that I love Caesar less, but that I love Rome more...
...What Do You Do?" The argument against Dirksen was mostly good-natured-except for a sarcastic performance by Dirksen's Illinois colleague, Democrat Paul Douglas...
...courts-martial hit 750,000 a year. In one sense, the complaints were no surprise; civilian soldiers, whether draftees or volunteers, have made known their distaste for military rules in every U.S. war since the Revolution. But Congress was also aware of the professional soldier's compelling argument that autocracy is a military necessity. As General William Tecumseh Sherman warned in 1879: "An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army...
...seismographs was considered unreliable. The trouble was, some explosions were likely to go un detected, and low-yield tests, when they were recorded, could not be reliably distinguished from earthquakes. But now, as negotiators are getting back to business again in Geneva, a new element has entered the argument. The U.S. is putting the finishing touches on an ultrasensitive seismic listening post that should enable scientists to refine their capability of detecting, locating and identifying underground bomb explosions...
...problem. "Where human feelings are part of the evidence, they cannot be ignored," he explains in Dark Ghetto, continuing, "Where anger is the appropriate response, to avoid the feeling itself . . . is to set boundaries on the truth itself." Clark has, since 1954, a powerful, if implicit, supporter for his argument--the Supreme Court, which accepted his psychological appendix to the brief, in Brown v. Board of Education...