Word: edict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overseas Chinese colony, declared the gang wars to be a state emergency, and asserted the government's right to hold young gangsters up to two years without trial. Even the Communist party-liners in the Legislative Assembly made no objection to this stern remedy. Police, under the new edict, promptly rounded up 80 gangland suspects...
...trashy commercialism. "I am not the bishop of Babylon," he said. He removed hundreds of crutches that once littered the Grotto and restored much of the cave's original rocky austerity. Last week Bishop Theas struck hard at the exploiters of the Grotto's waters. His edict: "In no manner must it be commercialized. The Grotto water is foredestined to be drunk and to be washed in. It can be so used at Lourdes or at home, but always with religious respect...
Wearily, Serling set to work on a new script. He had been through all this before. In 1956, for the U.S. Steel Hour, he had written another play that roughly paralleled the Till tragedy and watched disgustedly as it changed by sponsor's edict. His summary: "Every word of dialogue that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague...
Jewish couples on several occasions have been married in the church by Unitarian ministers, and four times since 1932 weddings performed by a rabbi have taken place. But these last services have usually been clandestine affairs, conducted in express violation of the Corporation's edict. And the Corporation reaffirmed its decision as late at 1949, upon an appeal from Dean Sperry...
President Eisenhower demonstrated his own matter-of-factness with an edict at his 126th press conference: "All of the outer space work done within the Defense Department will be under Secretary McElroy himself." McElroy put his thumbprint on an advancing age by setting up an Advanced Research Projects Agency, by appointing General Electric Vice President Roy W. Johnson, 52, to run it (see Defense). Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian Jr. undertook a classification of ways, means and reasons for space exploration. The armed services and all space dreamers seized the moment to plug for their pet projects...