Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...allies to one of the great military-diplomatic achievements of history. Within months the allied nations began to rim the Communist land masses with a network of forward airbases that put to best advantage the single deterrent that the West then had-the atomic bomber. The process was stepped up during the Korean war, until now U.S. planes and ships operate out of 80 U.S. bases in 25 lands and territories. Under terms of bilateral treaties and NATO and SEATO alliances, the U.S. also has the stand-by use of some 170 other air- and sea-bases. So effective...
...subpoena a powerful weapon in behalf of Negro voting rights. But two of the court's most outspoken liberals-Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black -vigorously dissented, in the belief that the court was retreating on the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution's due process clause...
...Congress had explicitly authorized the rules of secrecy in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Commission had been given a fact-finding mandate-as opposed to a judicial function-and "cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights." Due process, said Warren, "is an elusive concept. Its exact boundaries are undefinable . . . When a general fact-finding investigation is being conducted, it is not necessary that the full panoply of judicial procedures be used." Similar rules of procedure govern the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities Exchange Commission and the grand jury...
...Monaco, as in To Catch a Thief. What is offered instead is merely gruesome. The trail leads to a sagging, swamp-view motel and to one of the messiest, most nau seating murders ever filmed. At close range, the camera watches every twitch, gurgle, convulsion and hemorrhage in the process by which a living human becomes a corpse...
...learn that they will grow up-just by waiting-to be women. Boys, on the other hand, learn that to be men they must do something about it. Mere waiting is not enough; to be a man, a boy must prove himself and go on proving himself. Even the process of reproduction casts women in a relatively passive role, while it is something the male must make happen or else face failure. "The man's sense of his own masculinity," writes Author Goldstein, "is throughout characterized by uncertainty, challenge, and the feeling that he must again and again prove...