Word: chaptered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Another chapter in the history of John F. Kennedy's assassination drew toward a close last week. Jack Ruby, whose conviction for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
GUMMIDGE: Fine. Now open your textbook to the David Riesman chapter. Here is the eminent sociologist writing about Jargon: "Phrases such as 'achievement-oriented' or 'need-achievement' were, if I am not mistaken, invented by colleagues and friends of mine, Harry Murray and David C. McClelland ... It has occurred to me that they may be driven by a kind of asceticism precisely because they are poetic men of feeling who . . . have chosen to deal with soft data in a hard way." Now then, my boy, is there any better example of flapdoodle than that...
From 1900 to 1952, the Administrative Board was a small group of elderly deans and professors which passed judgment on disciplinary cases with advice from the "Chapter"--a number of baby deans who pleaded for mitigated sentences. Edward T. Wilcox, director of Advanced Standing and the Freshmen Seminar Program, recounts how he and other baby deans would make penny-bets on a case's outcome and then would go out and celebrate the ones they had "won"--for those students either let off or given light punishments...
...structure and tone of the Board changed after the Korean War when the Allston Burr Senior Tutor system was instituted. The Board expanded to almost twice its original size, and the advisory Chapter, along with the Senior Tutors, became part of it. Once a small strict group of old-time administrators, the reorganized Board became both younger and more lenient...
...rostrum of the Bundestag looked pleasantly plump, more mercantile than martial and, with its blunted wings and studded breast, convincingly contemporary. Beneath it last week the 17-year-old Federal Republic of Germany swore in a new Chancellor whose accession to power marks the close of the postwar chapter of Germany's history and the birth of a new spirit and a new approach to the world for its 57 million people...