Word: archaical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat Stewart L. Udall, 34, a Tucson lawyer, quickly had the mist wiped away. Udall found himself on the Education and Labor Committee, discovered that the important 30-man committee functioned only when and however its aging conservative chairman, Graham Arthur Barden of North Carolina, willed. Working under an archaic two-sentence set of rules, i.e., meetings at the chairman's, call, formation of subcommittees only at the chairman's pleasure, the committee in Udall's first two years churned only ten important proposals into law. It let half a dozen more die, including a $1.6. billion...
...biggest single problem, say railroadmen, is the archaic system of regulations enforced by Interstate Commerce Commission. Says Pittsburgh & Lake Erie President John W. Barriger: "The ICC's current rules are as economically stupid as 18th century medicine. They are killing the railroads. If General Motors had to wear our uniform in this league, it would be busted in two years...
...right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change the rules themselves. With half the members already signed on as cosponsors, the rules amendment should pass with little difficulty. With both measures through, a tiny band of Southerners who over the years have combined seniority and archaic rules to strangle legislation that displeased them will have suffered momentous defeat...
...Russians, no doubt, admire London for his quaintly archaic socialism. Despite his limitations, Americans can still read him for other reasons-a raw vitality and a real storytelling gift...
Wilder regarded Miss Sitwell as a "Sibyl of archaic tradition," and felt that she speaks like Atropos, one of the three Fates. He compared her treatment of the catastrophies of man to that of Jeffers, and felt that she was "a modern revelation of St. John...