Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's clout showed itself this year when he led a seemingly doomed crusade against a congressional redistricting bill aimed at negating the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote dictum until the 1972 election. Kennedy first promoted passage of a Senate version separate from the House's, and when all five of his fellow Senators on the joint conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says...
...feminine. The current difficulty of differentiating a male from a female is not due to long hair-or to clothing-but to the feminizing effect of shaving. Men were intended to have beards and women to have smooth cheeks. Men have chosen to violate our Creator's dictum-and we pay for it in blood every morning...
...Exhibitionist precisely fulfills Geis's dictum that a story about seemingly real celebrities will sell big, especially if it is crammed with sex. Both Geis and Author Henry Sutton, a nom de plume for David Slavitt, 32, are careful not to suggest that the novel's characters are based on anybody in particular, but the readers are obviously incited to guess; after all, there are not too many young movie actresses around whose fathers are aging screen stars...
...constitution," said Justice Benjamin Cardozo, "states, or ought to state, not rules for the passing hour but principles for an expanding future." In the U.S., most state constitutions pay no heed to Cardozo's dictum...
...into the professional music world. Bud enforced taut Navy discipline: the kids had to keep up with their studies, practice two hours daily to build up a repertory of 500 rock 'n' roll, folk, country and pop songs, and key their lives to the parental dictum, "If we can't eat it, play it or perform with it, we can't have...