Word: affixation
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...ripples there were. Within the first few weeks of the semester a chorus of groans could be heard from undergraduates who worried that they might soon have to affix their signatures to papers and exams and perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan...
...suggest that the Undergraduate Council take another look at the question of its representation on the ACSR. If it decides to send another resolution and report to President Bok and the other members of the Corporation, then the Undergraduate Council should affix a firm deadline at which time it will take additional action if a satisfactory response has not been received...
...calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
...used to be said that those who wrote the nation's songs were somehow more influential than those who wrote its laws, though since Bob Dylan there hasn't been much proof of this. Perhaps power now goes to those who affix the country's labels. Editors and others who do so should recall Albert Einstein's dictum that everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler...
...some more time for the positions to be finally agreed. We trust that the principle of equality and equal security, which the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. recognize as the starting point, will prompt correct decisions and that President Carter and I will be able in the near future to affix our signatures to the accord. The task set by life itself ?to put an end to the unrestrained arms race, to ensure security for our nations and to consolidate international peace at a lower level of military confrontation?is worth the effort...