Word: constructionistic
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Leading 23-0 with only seconds remaining in the game, the Crimson took the ball over on downs and appeared headed to its first shutout in 97 years. However, quarterback Bob "Strict Constructionist" Decherd, employing a Southern strategy, ran due South out of the Harvard endzone on the final play of the game to ensure a 23-2 final margin...
...prove as tough as the stony-faced Szell, who also began as a child prodigy. Few conductors could. In every other way, he seems to be the one youngish maestro around who most resembles Szell in style, craftsmanship and musical taste. Like his predecessor, Maazel is a strict constructionist who regards the printed score as his own personal bill of rights. He is capable of passion, but not at the expense of symmetry and the sturdy line. He is widely acknowledged as a supreme podium technician...
...inflammation of the blood vessels. President Nixon is known to be considering seven possible successors for the position. One leading contender is said to be Republican Representative Richard Poff of Virginia, a constitutional law specialist, a friend of Attorney General John Mitchell and a Southerner, apparently in the strict constructionist mold Nixon has frequently endorsed...
...Warren Court: "Its greatest virtue was that it was a strict constructionist court. Particularly on due process and equal protection, the Warren Court went back to the wording and meaning of the Constitution...
...Vice President spent much of the final week in Dixie, denying that he was "reflecting or pushing what the curled-lip boys in the Eastern ivory towers contemptuously call a 'Southern strategy' " -and promising that "this Administration will appoint, and will see confirmed, a Southern strict constructionist on the Supreme Court." At a Navy League dinner in Manhattan, he fired an old-fashioned broadside at members of Congress who have become "viscerally antagonistic toward the whole defense complex." Said Agnew: "Deep down in their hearts is a feeling that international Communism is no longer really dangerous, at least...