Word: edict
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...small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple: Vag was to be present at a certain place at a certain time for a "veteran's" physical exam. He was to fill out the big white form and bring it. Above all, he was not to forget the white form. He was to fill out the form...
...dead against it," was the typical reaction in an informal poll last night of girls at the Boston-vicinity colleges to the edict issued by Gen. Joseph T. McNarny yesterday permitting G.I.-fraulein marriages...
...week's strike was typical. The trolleymen's wages were fixed in the spring by the city's supervisors and, according to the city charter, would have to stand for one year. The trolleymen argued that Lapham should declare an emergency and boost their wages by edict. Although he saw some justice in their wage demands, he refused to jump through that legal loophole...
...huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary. Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, to enforce the order, there began a battle between the rugged Bishop and his handful of Dominican friars on the one hand, and the furious planters and renegade clergy on the other, that was not resolved until slavery...
...Wrong. The Gibbs edict, delivered from a pompano-less mouth, first appeared in the New York Sun. Furthermore, TIME'S Doe would have been a researcher, feminine, and not nervous...