Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hoses and tear gas scattered the Negroes, threw them into choking confusion. Police arrested 350 students, marched them to a makeshift stockade behind the wire fence of the Orangeburg County jail's parking lot. At week's end they were being tried in relays of 15 for breach of the peace before a jury of five whites and one Negro...
...Memphis' first sit-ins, Negroes hit a lunch counter one day, next day moved on to the segregated public libraries. Thirty-six students and five Negro newspapermen were hauled from two libraries, arrested for threatening breach of the peace, disorderly conduct and loitering...
...President's right to raise the interest rate would allow the Treasury to breach the ceiling this year to the extent of $5 billion, carry over any unused amount into coming years. But Secretary Anderson has made it clear that he has no intention of putting out more than $1 billion or so in long-term bonds at a rate above 4¼%. Passage of the bill, scheduled for debate in the House this week, is virtually assured, despite strong opposition from the liberal Democratic wing. Prospects for its passage in the Senate also look promising...
...Breach of Promise. In Akron, kindly granting her supposedly dying ex-husband's last request. Catherine Logan remarried him, had the marriage annulled after her husband unexpectedly recovered and started chasing her around his hospital room...
...diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone!" All Cuba, for which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried Lojendio's shout: "I have been slandered! I have been slandered!" Guards then hustled the marquis off to his residence...