Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the public "might interpret civil defense to mean that The Enemy threatens imminent death," popular hostility to the idea of negotiating with communist states could restrict America's ability to parley, the report warned...
...foreign correspondents in Washington, U.S. officials give highest marks to the British, whose tradition of excellence dates from the late Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, witty correspondent for the Times of London from 1920 to 1947. "Next to our own people, who are unbeatable, the British correspondents report and interpret the U.S. better than anybody else," says a senior State Department official. "The British are great-and have tremendous influence...
...tests required for voting privileges. Under the bill, Puerto Ricans would no longer be required to know English in order to vote-provided they had at least a sixth-grade education in Spanish-and Southern states would not be able to prevent Negroes from voting by asking them to "interpret" the Constitution. Administration strategists gave the bill a "reasonably good" chance of passage...
...peer." When he and the President are of the same party, the Speaker is expected to be the chief White House ally on Capitol Hill. The Speaker must be a skilled and cool parliamentarian, in complete control of the 437 men and women of the House, able to interpret, to arbitrate, and to act swiftly and certainly. Through his various powers, controls and discretions, he can exercise enormous influence on the flow of legislation. No law may be enacted without the Speaker's signature. His right to refuse recognition to members rising to speak on the floor...
...main target of SNCC's work in Mississippi has been a statute permitting voting registrars to ask applicants to interpret any part of the state constitution. Under the law registrars can ask Negroes to answer virtually impossible questions, and thus prevent their registration on supposedly legal grounds...