Word: obstructions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sabbath. But it was also full of men devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with...
Although such a proposal will give the Russians one more talking point with which to obstruct a final solution, the failure to consider peaceful tests would be a dangerous one. Progress in the attempt to turn atoms into plowshares should not be sacrificed to the pressure against weapons tests...
...Washington's Warehouse Employees' Local 730 after its treasury was looted by its officers in 1952, Baker joined up with Jimmy Hoffa, went to work in St. Louis for Hoffa Lieutenant Harold Gibbons. Baker's specialty: "belly bumping," i.e., using his gross girth to direct or obstruct picket line traffic...
Those earnestly seeking to improve and modernize Cambridge should attack all instances of opportunism and profiteering which obstruct progress more than the tenacity of slum areas or the shortage of funds. To move forward, Cambridge must undermine all such schemes to profit by her desire...
...valid federal court order. Narrowing down to the Southern governors' Little Rock formula, the President wanted Faubus first to promise to use his police powers positively to enforce federal court orders; eventually the President settled for the Southern governors' draft that Faubus would promise negatively "not to obstruct" federal court orders. Midway in the meeting, the President set his own personal keynote: "I have never said what I thought about the Supreme Court decision-I have never told a soul-but how I feel about it is immaterial. The fact is that...