Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout Haiti this week, the people of the villages will enact the Judas hunt, an ancient Holy Week ceremonial which they have colored and absorbed into their own folklore. In effigy, "Monsieur Judas" will come to visit the peasants as one of the twelve apostles and an honored guest. But as soon as the death of Christ is announced on Good Friday, the symbolic traitor will flee, and the hunt will begin early on Holy Saturday...
...Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they go wrong. But the courts are making more use of the state's "sex-psychopath law," which provides psychiatric treatment for convicted offenders. And (except for homosexuals) they rarely repeat their offenses after they get out on parole...
Villers opposed the bill on two grounds from an educational aspect. He said such a commission was not needed to dredge up Red affiliations because "students are well aware of the Communist threat." He added that it was not the job of a legislative group to enact an administrative...
...should: 1) write a new law to eliminate all tariffs as quickly as possible, 2) abandon the "Buy American Act" and quota system which "is contrary to every principle of free enterprise" because it permits only a fixed quantity of goods to enter the country, and 3) enact a workable law to simplify customs procedures...
Crimson debaters beat Tufts and lost to Holy Cross last night on the question: "Resolved, that Congress should enact a compulsory fair employment practices law." Arguing for the affirmative at Tufts were David L. Rose '53 and Karl Wilbur...