Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hectic life of a much-sought-after bachelor-he is separated, at least geographically, from his wife Marian, who still lives in Washington. His jaunty bow tie has been seen at Arthur-a discothèque that might well have been named for him -and his every date and dictum seem to end up in the gossip columns...
...probably the strongest team we have ever had," she said. Radcliffe had," she said. Radcliffe had only to survive one more meet against Wellesley and Jackson, to live up to this dictum...
Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Miller & Co. insisted that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. The information on the card is already on file; moreover, another law makes it a crime to be in "willful nonpossession" of a draft...
...laughs. Beclch clouts a small boy to death in the anguished presence of the child's mother. She decapitates a young goat, and gnaws on the animal's entrails with her lips dripping blood. All this is meant to confound, amaze, and dismay, to dramatize the central dictum of Antonin Artaud, the French pioneer of this type of theater who said: "Everything that acts is a cruelty...
...Post's dictum is: "Be useful, be generous, keep busy." What have been the most memorable days of her life? Says she with a smile: "There have been too many of them to single out only...