Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creed passed after a lively two-hour debate at which four presbyteries challenged the constitutionality of the Confession, unsuccessfully arguing that the Confession illegally eliminated the archaic, little-used Larger Catechism of 1648 from church doctrine. Still an other dispute arose over the creed's statement that the church is bound to work for peace "even at risk to national security." The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson of the Washington, D.C., presbytery proposed that the "unnecessarily provocative" passage should be expunged, since it might create security clearance problems for church members in Government service; though Elson...
...federal courts everywhere in the U.S. Conversely, last year Johnson condemned another kind of legal pay: the fees for convictions that Alabama justices of the peace had long pocketed as their only income. That ruling, faithful to a widely ignored 1927 decision of the Supreme Court, may kill the archaic j.p. system all over the South. "If a judge has a financial stake in the outcome," says Johnson, "he's disqualified...
Congress has long relied on the postal service as a tub of sweet-and-pungent pork. Instead of using the patronage system, which has hurt morale and impeded efficiency, the corporation could promote on merit. Another major problem has been the Post Office's archaic technical facilities; with construction programs pressured on one side by budget vagaries and on the other by congressional logrolling, it has tended to be more interested in concrete than com puters-though even its buildings are inadequate. The agency envisioned...
...exotic race of faithful shepherds living in the remote fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words for yes (bai) and no (ez). More important, Basques by the hundreds of thousands have come out of their tight green mountain valleys and moved to the cities...
...Archaic Rules. The right to speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...