Word: enact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote of the entire faculty will not be required to enact the new policy since the scheduling of examinations is entirely a departmental affair...
...long time has passed," they wrote, "since an American President has seriously asked the Congress to enact a serious and comprehensive program of legislation." With that, they gave the back of their column's hand to an old friend. "The programs of Harry S. Truman were mainly intended, after all, not to be enacted into law, but to put Congress on the spot. Truman himself would probably have been horrified if the lawmakers had actually voted for some of his more extreme and ill-digested suggestions, such as the Oscar Ewing health and social security plans...
...gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea that other producers might profitably take up: that one good way to recapture the excitement of history-which is exciting essentially because it really happened-is to re-enact the event as much as possible in the way it originally happened...
...however, should avoid letting furs and woolens come in contact with the skin and should keep away from oils and greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent and the patients patient. ¶The Kentucky Health Department has asked the state assembly to enact drastic anti-tuberculosis legislation. The proposed bill would: 1) require a medical examination of people suspected of having infectious TB, 2) set up locked sections in state TB sanatoriums for victims of infectious TB who refuse voluntary isolation, 3) give health officers authority to confine violators...
...President's actual proposal to Congress was, "I recommend that Congress enact legislation to provide that a citizen of the United States who is convicted in the courts of hereafter conspiring to advocate the overthrow of this government by force or violence be treated as having, by such act, renounced his allegiance to the United States and forfeited his United States citizenship...