Word: encroachment
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...aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled A. & P. Millionaire Huntington Hartford over his desire to encroach on Central Park with a café restaurant...
...religion have dealt with overpopulation. In conclusion, I wrote: "In all likelihood, modern civilization will solve [these problems] as it is wont to do: by a reductio ad absurdiun, such as war; or by technological-administrative interventions, such as forced migration, compulsory sterilization, and stealthy pills, which invariably encroach on human dignity and freedom and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." Your reviewer finds my views "disconcerting." Quoting only part of the above sentence, he infers that I am opposed to "oral contraceptives." It should be obvious...
Construction of the new wing will encroach on the small area that now serves as a ladies' waiting room. This will probably necessitate admitting women to the Faculty Club's main lounge for the first time, the Managing Board said...
These attitudes can be disconcerting. For example, he sees the success of the Western parliamentary system as dependent upon the existence of a responsible elite rather like a composite English gentleman-to whom he addresses a prose poem of admiration. He deplores oral contraceptives as "stealthy pills which encroach on human dignity and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." He classifies the "passion for ugliness and disfigurement" in modern art as a "danger far greater than depopulation by war." Liberals would call him a reactionary...
...buys most of its meat from a packing plant in Birmingham (though the plant gets the meat from outside Alabama). If Title II forced Ollie's to serve Negroes, said Smith, the result "would convert the commerce clause into a general welfare power under which Congress could encroach upon personal liberty and property to a degree never heretofore imagined...