Word: caveat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined as any White Citizens Council president to keep the bloodlines pure, frolicsome, Cambridge-educated King Freddie, Kabaka of Buganda (pop. about 1,500,000) in the British protectorate of Uganda, moved swiftly to preserve black supremacy. Days after younger brother Prince Henry, 31, had defied a sibling caveat and married 17-year-old Carol Ann Whitey. a Bournemouth art student, Freddie's parliament notified the bridegroom: "As you have married an English girl, neither your children nor your grandchildren can be recognized as being in the direct line of succession to the Kabakaship...
What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed? Up to its dollies in lubricous headlines, Columbia Pictures Corp. issued a stern caveat to a hot property, sometime lavender-haired Cineminx Kim Novak: no more would she see her yacht-bounding buddy, General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. La Novak, sighing loudly enough for even the most quote-weary columnist to hear clearly, sounded like a damsel in the dragon's clutch: "I don't know whether I'll ever see him again. Now that he's been painted as a villain, it has spoiled everything...
...phony pitchmen, the American Medical Association had long complained of these crass abuses. Last year the National Association of Broadcasters ordered that actors could go on impersonating scientific types only if the words "A Dramatization" were superimposed on the pitch for at least ten seconds. Advertisers obliged-but the caveat in print proved to have little meaning for most viewers, according to the N.A.B. Last week the N.A.B. again revised its code, in effect unfrocked TV's men and women in white. Henceforth, ruled the N.A.B., all doctors, dentists or nurses appearing in commercials must really be doctors, dentists...
...with this caveat, the bishop invites Catholic psychiatrists to pay special attention to the problems of mystical phenomena (ecstasy, levitation, visions, stigmatization), vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and such common lay problems as sexual aberrations and "the ever practical matter of the validity of the assent given to the marriage contract...
...Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water...