Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waitresses, and made wildly conflicting statements about Elliott ("He's a sonofabitch . . . I love the guy"). He pursued Elliott to Melbourne, on arrival handed newsmen a classically misspelled statement. It attacked the "imberciles" who had pictured him as a "charlton," whined: "Am I to be sacrificed on the alter of prejudice?'' By this time Australians were increasingly suspicious that Leavitt's antics were chiefly designed to publicize another Western Promotions venture-the tour of "Goose" Tatum's basketball team, the Harlem Trotters. But the first Trotter game drew only 1,200 fans to Sydney...
...limit Ph.D. study to four years must have come either from aroused protective instincts or from simple misunderstanding. Possibly the various departments suspect in the Dean's proposals a plot to catalyze his present comfortable hold into an iron grip. Or they may think the proposals would really alter the structure of graduate study. Both of these fears should cease...
...historians about 50 or a hundred years from now and there should be preserved the Kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white or color evidence of decadence [and] escapism . . . If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: 'Look Now, Pay Later...
...first time in modern U.S. history, a federal court last week restricted the President's powers to adjust tariffs. The three-judge U.S. Customs Court in New York ruled 2 to i that the President cannot alter the recommendations of the U.S. Tariff Commission under the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to adjust tariffs or impose quotas to help U.S. industries that can prove they are being damaged by imports...
...measure increasing Freshman representation to four had 859 yes to 342 no votes, while a measure to alter Council attendance requirements was passed...