Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Showdown at the Coop
...there, the subjugation of the whole green globe, in one paragraph between the strangling of a sentry and the showdown with a martian bigwig. The Foundation Trilogy tells nine hundred years of galactic "history" in about as many pages...
...pilots of the major U.S. airlines are black. Now would-be Negro pilots will gain a new ally. Trial Attorney F. Lee Bailey announced that he will open a flying school for blacks near Boston on Jan. 1, with an initial class of 25. He intends "to force a showdown with the airlines, which are not hiring black pilots on grounds that they cannot find a 'qualified man.' My guys will be qualified...
Ever since the prospects for Clement Haynsworth's confirmation to the Supreme Court began to fade, key Republican Senators have tried to persuade the Nixon Administration to withdraw the nomination and avoid an embarrassing, party-splitting showdown. Nixon has refused. Mustering every scintilla of White House prestige and pressure, he has sought to win over recalcitrant Senators, but with little success. As a result, Nixon now faces the biggest defeat of his young Administration...
Sensing a showdown, the Syndicate summoned a meeting of the 21-member working committee, the party's highest executive body, to consider Indira's actions against Nijalingappa. Indira defiantly summoned her supporters on the working committee to meet at the same time but at a different place. The result: an even split. Ten members went to the Syndicate's session and ten to Indira's, while the 21st member shuttled between the two groups in hopes of patching up the quarrel...