Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through an extra lot of smiling and a great deal of sympathy for a tale of a Harvard rejection I managed an invitation to luncheon at a Secret Society--like a Harvard Final Club but even crustier and more archaic. The Secret Societies are so secret that visitors are not even permitted inside the huge, windowless stone "tombs" that house them, and we had our lunch on the fourth floor of a nearby University administration building...
...President noted in his proclamation, "the endurance and stability of our democracy, as we prepare once more for an orderly transition of authority." The country avoided extremism and the constitutional crisis of a deadlock in the Electoral College. Despite apathy, the U.S. may now be spurred to reform the archaic laws that could permit such a crisis to develop in a future election...
Paul has streamlined many of the baroque papal ceremonies and abolished the archaic privileges of Rome's Black Nobility. He has not only internationalized the Curia but also has brought about the most sweeping reform in that musty bureaucracy since 1588, by abolishing a number of useless offices, limiting appointments to five-year terms and providing the church with a kind of executive prime minister in the form of the Vatican's Secretary of State...
...homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...
Battleships are decidedly old-fashioned in a nuclear age, but in a limited war like the one in Viet Nam, strange or archaic weapons sometimes do the most effective job. Within the 23-mile range of the New Jersey's guns are 60% of the North Vietnamese targets now hit by bombers, and the ship requires no garrison to protect its perimeter. The 25-year-old New Jersey was brought out of mothballs once before, for the limited war in Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China...