Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither Alabama's nor Mississippi's delegation is likely to submit to one national party dictum--a pledge to support the party's nominee. In Alabama, Johnson supporters have had to charter a new party in order to assure that the President's name--they have no doubt he will be re-nominated--will be on the ballot. The regular party will support former Gov. George Wallace...
...Advisory Council has judiciously decided to invite Fouts to its meetings and to ask the Faculty to make him an exception to Ford's dictum. The Faculty should assent...
Improving on Descartes. Although Tolstoy was constantly hounded by feelings of doubt and inadequacy, he accepted the fact of his genius and singularity without question. He was a born taker; as a youth, he amended Descartes' dictum, "I think, therefore I am," to "I want, therefore I am." And why not? Rich, landed and titled in a country where rural life still turned on the relationship of serf to master, Tolstoy could indulge his appetites without fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made...
...selected dates in each month. This would involve drafting at one time men born on the same dates in all 12 months, not just those born at certain times of the year or months. When shown this plan, General Hershey said it was clearly random, violated the oldest-first dictum, and would very clearly be declared illegal by Congress. Don Gifford '60, Kennedy's aide and draft expert, disagreed. The issue remains to be settled...
...this was an addition and a source of strength to his own life." Following their engagement, Bonhoeffer initially accepted the prospect of a lengthy betrothal out of respect to Maria's family. "But soon," she writes, "he objected clearly, decisively and repeatedly. When we succeeded in changing the dictum, it was too late; he had been imprisoned...