Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vice versa. Moreover, the protagonists in the Viet Nam conflict have shown no interest in peace and neutrality. Cooperation with the ICC-in Hanoi as well as in Saigon-has been minimal, and with no force of arms to give it authority, the commission has had to accept the dicta of both capitals...
...publisher. Under his stewardship, the Times brightened its pages with more pictures and a crisper, more readable writing style, expanded its coverage with greater emphasis on personality studies and news analysis. He allowed his editors wide latitude in day-to-day operations, engaged in debate rather than ex-cathedra dicta to implement his ideas, delighted in writing long letters to the editor under the pen name A. Aitchess. By 1961, the Times's daily circulation had risen 48%, to 680,265, and its Sunday circulation had nearly doubled, to 1,306,418. Sulzberger was nearing 70, and he felt...
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack...
Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...Pius X (who was proclaimed a saint in 1954) stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture with the same freedom enjoyed by their Protestant counterparts...