Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exceptions have been made: players in a late baseball game can usually finish up an inning--not, of course, the whole game. But the referees indecision about overtime legality Saturday night shows that the rules are far from uniform. State legislators would do well to amend the law at least, making it possible to conclude those events which happen to spill over into the early minutes of Sunday morning...
Swinging Doors. Why, McCarthy wanted to know, did "this Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the general: regulations prevented him from discussing security cases. Whereupon Joe McCarthy ordered the doors shut for a closed session...
...defeat of a motion to amend the controversial proposal advocating the admission of qualified students to the Houses as sophomores showed the existence of a certain amount of support for the proposal as it stands. The vetoed amendment advocated delay of any decision on advanced standing until after the freshman year...
...Cloudy" Points He explained the compulsory provisions of the Taffrail Club constitution as the result of a misunderstanding, and said they were instituted because the officers of the unit thought they would make it easier to collect dues. The Army Unit's Caisson Club will also be urged to amend its constitution to clarify some "cloudy" points concerning the collection of dues, he added...
Organized opposition, however, will probably never materialize. Department heads will undoubtedly work the proposals over viciously and amend heartily. But it is doubtful that they will try for a complete veto...