Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clay, who had fanned the flames of war three decades earlier, now found himself on the side of peace. Said he: "This is no war of defense, but one of unnecessary and offensive aggression." Daniel Webster suggested Folk's impeachment for involving the U.S. in war without congressional consent. It was, Webster insisted, "a war of pretexts"-a pretext that Mexico had invaded U.S. territory, a pretext that Mexico had declined to receive a U.S. emissary, a pretext that Mexico had refused to pay just U.S. claims...
...vote, run for public office, hold government jobs (the under secretaries of three government ministries are now women), and even divorce their husbands. Their husbands, on the other hand, can no longer be married to more than one wife at a time, unless the first wife gives her consent. Since the matrimonial reform was put into effect, Iranian courts have consented to only one ménage à trois...
...Farnsworth last night refused to comment specifically on the article. He explained, however, that UHS psychiatrists do not release information to University officials without the consent of the student, except in the following circumstances...
...companies as welcome intruders, partly because their purchases help meet the manufacturers' need for vast amounts of cash to pay for research and development. IBM, with 70% of the U.S. computer market, dares not use its size to crush the dis count lessors, because of a 1956 antitrust consent decree...
...Prutting urges hospital pathologists to educate their colleagues at weekly "organ recitals" for comparison of diagnoses and autopsy findings. This still might not increase the number of autopsies substantially, for in most states, if death occurs in a hospital or is not "suspicious," an autopsy is illegal without consent of the next of kin. Dr. Prutting suggests that "archaic state laws" should be revised so that consent is not required, and the dead can aid the living...