Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ad Hoc Committees...
...proposal also asks for students to be placed on "any ad hoc committees agreed upon by discussion of student and Faculty representatives...
Over the past two weekends I have had about 170 different boys bedded down at my house.... They went to people in every alley and they are responsible for getting this vote, which no matter how the newspeople discuss its meaning ad nauseum, was a vote not so much against any combination of things; but a vote FOR Senator McCarthy. This is the man we are looking for--honest and believable. He came here a laughable figure, magnanimously conceded 5 per cent of the vote and he won because he represents what the young have been parading and sitting down...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
...insanity plea, said the court, "is neither an express nor an implied ad mission of present illness, and acquittal rests only on a reasonable doubt of sani ty at the time of the offense. It is true that persons acquitted by reason of in sanity have committed criminal acts and that this fact may tend to show that they meet the requirements for commitment, namely illness and dangerousness. But it does not justify total abandonment of the procedures used in civil commitment proceedings to determine whether these same requirements have been satisfied...