Word: enact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painful birth, guilty for his "hatred" of his parents, and guilty for his love of his brother Richard, a wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search was the symbolic destruction of his "mystical brother," Alger Hiss...
Senator Abraham H. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) will ask the 90th Congress, when it convenes next January, to enact Daniel P. Moynihan's proposal for an "Office of Legislative Evaluation...
...asking, 'Just where are we going?' " Democrats agreed. New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledged: "Some parts of the country want to go slower than others." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield conceded that the time had come for Congress to do some "tightening up" of the programs that he helped enact. Slowdown sentiment is certain to make itself felt the first time Congress is asked to fund an expensive foreign-aid or domestic program. "I should judge," said Dirksen, "that the scalpel will be wielded rather freely...
...Dressed in a special pressure suit rigged with weights and floats that enable him to remain buoyant at a specific level underwater, Aldrin has spent hours practicing his EVA assignments under conditions that approximate but do not exactly duplicate weightlessness. Astronaut Cernan has also used the pool to re-enact his Gemini 9 experiences...
Though few other papers have adopted such a formal set of rules, some have been trying to abide by them without making any published promises. Others say they plan to enact a set of guidelines once the American Bar Association publishes its promised recommendations for crime coverage next month...