Word: decorums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to remain anonymous because that's more fitting with Radcliffe's standards of decorum, she says. Would be suitors don't care, apparently; she's already gotten 12 responses...
...problem of police brutally and discourtesy is not nearly as acute as it was 30 years ago, Gellhorn said. "Today, the New York and Washington police forces are models of decorum...
Possibly in the interests of international decorum, the government did not specify charges, but every Lebanese trader could itemize the likeliest opportunities for a safqa (deal) in the foreign service: peddling diplomatic codes and official reports, for example, or trading in black-market currencies. One confidential dispatch recently turned up in a Cairo newspaper before it reached the foreign office in Beirut...
Right to Disagree. Labor's monumental decorum was marred only momentarily, when two dozen student pickets infiltrated the meeting to protest against the war in Viet Nam, while Dean Rusk was defending U.S. policy before the convention. George Meany, like any true hero of the barricades, stumped over to the podium and growled: "Will the sergeant at arms remove those kookies from the gallery...
...decorum was short-lived. Hardly had the session begun when Dr. Ahrn Palley, a balding pediatrician and an independent member from Salisbury, bounced to his feet with a point of order. "Certain Honorable Members in collusion have torn up the constitution under which this House meets," he roared. "The proceedings have no legal validity whatsoever." That was as far as he got. While his 50 fellow whites hooted and jeered ("The law is an ass!"), Palley was suspended from Parliament. Nine African deputies walked out with...