Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody liked the edict. "With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even the cops prowled Copacabana beach with noisy prudence; they made no arrests the first three nights...
Without a certain esprit de corps, any military unit would be useless in battle. the NROTC edict requiring all members of the Unit to join Taffrail Club was undoubtedly issued in the hope of building up Naval morale and unity in the College...
...edict was issued cutting off from the payroll all University personnel other than Yard cops, ghost-lecturers and those persons with offices in Conant or Pusey Halls. This was justified on the stand that unless a drastic cut took place somewhere in the budget, the $800,000,000 endowment fund might not continue to rise. Many felt it was a good thing that, as a consequence of the move, at last the grading system could be done away with...
...Milwaukee, "when the district attorney . . . attempted to ban three well-known novels by personal edict ... he finally withdrew his ban under heavy fire from the Milwaukee Journal and citizens of the city...
...deny that there is authority in the United States to abolish segregation," Howe explained. He said that he felt a Court edict would only give rise to political delaying tactics and possible social upheaval in the South, however...