Word: conformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily. Under her new codes, courts may order a prisoner shot for his "intentions"-which the courts must judge at their discretion. They can punish "counterrevolutionaries" who are merely "waiting for a chance to commit a crime." The new penalties may be retroactive, Madame Shih continued. Verdicts "should conform to prevailing policy...
Writing in the current issue of Commentary, this eminent son of a rabbi finds "American Jewry . . . aiming at a confused third way which is neither philosophically tenable nor socially practicable" -a "genteel" watering-down of Judaism to conform to U.S. cultural standards...
Soviet scientists lost face with their free colleagues a few years ago when they were forced to support pseudo-scientific theories that conform to Communist orthodoxy. Many scientist sympathizers, including Britain's Professor J.B.S. Haldane, broke with the Russian line over the dogma that Trofim Lysenko's sloppy genetics teaching (i.e., that environment is the big determinant in the development of life) is the only true doctrine. it was widely predicted that subjection to such authority would seriously damage the morale of Soviet scientists, and that the ill effects would soon show up on the practical level...
...Harvard College? He left England, when a boy, for America in 1629, and was Harvard's first student in 1642, Returning to England, when a young man, he became Rector of Newbury, which living he held for the first two years of Charles H's reign. He refused to conform and became the Minister of the United Presbyterians and Independents. Until his death in 1864 he was revered as "a wholly able and painful minister." G. B. Suggett Newbury, Berks. England
...That organizations are simply reminded of, and not required to conform to, Massachusetts laws. This leaves the enforcement of state laws solely up to the state...