Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from their holiday recess, they fervently hoped that Barkley's adage still held true. The 94th Congress was supposed to be a Democratic triumph, but in the past three months the session has turned into an almost unmitigated Democratic disaster because of a crushing succession of failures to overturn presidential vetoes. Nonetheless, the party's congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem and arrest President Gerald Ford's momentum before the presidential campaigns begin in earnest next year. As a first step, House Speaker Carl Albert...
Lawyers for Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin argued a motion at a hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court yesterday to overturn his February 15 manslaughter conviction on the grounds that the verdict went against the weight of the evidence...
Defense attorneys in the Kenneth C. Edelin manslaughter case resubmitted a motion yesterday asking Suffolk Superior Court Judge James P. McGuire to overturn the guilty verdict passed by a jury February...
...question about a fetus' inability to survive outside the womb. But, fearful of sharing Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term abortions. The Boston decision is likely to please antiabortionists, who have been trying for nearly two years to overturn or circumvent the Supreme Court's decision. But it may well work untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who may now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...
...heavy slush. When a burst of speed is needed, drivers sometimes "pump" (give a series of short one-legged kicks in the snow) to aid their animals. Some drivers hold a "snub line" to prevent the animals from running off without them in the event of an overturn...