Word: conformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night's Council session passed away on minute examination of certain passages of the Constitution with the idea in some members minds of revision. Two passages were rephrased "to conform to council practice," according to Council Treasurer Albert Hofeld '58. An estimated ten were...
...Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), is another saga of the pervasive man in a grey flannel suit (legal division), specifically a young attorney in one of Manhattan's sprawling and powerful law factories. As outlined by Novelist-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss, Timothy Colt's problem is how to conform to a pattern whose place in the moral spectrum lies comfortably between the shining white of pure integrity and the smudgy black of downright dishonesty. At the start, as an eager apprentice in the prosperous firm of Sheffield, Knox, Stevens & Dale, young Timmy, top student and Law Review editor, fairly radiates integrity...
...blur of planeborne and trainborne candidates, of parades, rallies and TV shows, the 1956 campaign began to take recognizable shape. One month before Election Day what the candidates and their parties said, did and planned increasingly tended to conform to these factors...
...think it makes no difference whether or not I endorse it (the Supreme Court decision) ... the Constitution is as the Supreme Court interprets it; and I must conform to that...
...last month she became an American citizen. If she has any more to say it is probably what she says in The Nun's Story: "I'm not leaving the Church-only you, my sisters, and our Holy Rule that I am not strong enough to conform to . . remember this and feel no slight or sorrow...