Word: documented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant minds, the learned political scientists, the jealous sectional and class partisans, the great prose stylists who made up that convention, Washington could not compete-and did not try. He spoke seldom, initiated little; no section of the Constitution can be pointed to and called his. But the whole document belongs to him as much as to any man. His practical sense, his bold vision, his conservatism-all these pervade the Constitution, whose strength and flexibility have held together in high tension the disparate forces of the American character...
...done against mythical backgrounds. For years the ten had gathered dust in the vaults of Madrid's famed Prado Museum. Experts thought that they might be Zurbaran's work, but no one was sure. Rooting around in the archives, Maria Luisa Caturla was rewarded with a faded document bearing the seal of Philip IV's royal notary and stating that Francisco Zurbaran had been paid 1,100 ducats for a series of paintings representing Hercules and his tasks...
Kennedy could sympathize with these students because of the signatory tasks he has himself. He must sign almost every important record and document (but not degrees) that students need to officially be students. Every time he signs Kennedy records the fact on a little clicker on his desk. In a recent academic year, he saw the total rise to five thousand seven hundred and thirty-one. He quickly bought himself a signature stamp...
...murder of Sticht. When they got out in 1949, Werner drew up a constitution for the gang: "Security for all members, adequate living standards, 1,500,000 Deutsche Mark ($357,143) to be amassed by all possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time putting the new constitution into effect: he promptly killed the boy who had tattled. Thus cleansed, the gang went into action. They held up a cigar store, tried to kill a bank messenger (whose briefcase proved to be empty) and stuck...
...last week two U.S. Senators strode into a State Department office, seated themselves at a table and began poring over a 30-page document. Ohio's Robert A. Taft and Alabama's John Sparkman had come over from Capitol Hill to go through the FBI report on Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, nominee for Ambassador to Russia. Both Taft and Sparkman were already satisfied with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' judgment that Bohlen was a good security risk, but the hue & cry raised by Bohlen's opponents about reports of his past association with "dissolute persons...