Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separation-of-powers principle did not permit him to get involved in a series of court proceedings. But when Chief Justice John Marshall issued a subpoena or dering Jefferson to produce a batch of letters and documents, he submitted some of them. President James Monroe reacted in similar fashion when he was subpoenaed to testify at a court-martial in 1818. In a curious modern sequel, a California state judge ordered President John Kennedy to give evidence at a trial in 1961. Some delegates to the 1960 Democratic Convention had been injured while riding in Kennedy...
Uganda's unpredictable General Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada may be a Moslem, but last week he was sounding off on equal rights for women. Suiting action to his words, he appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Egypt Princess Elizabeth of Toro, 34, once a top fashion model and Uganda's first woman barrister. The princess has been a firm Amin supporter since Big Daddy seized power in 1971. She was rewarded with a U.N. post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were...
Call it a revival, mark it down to a turn of fashion's wheel. The mannequins who strode, twirled and postured through Paris' haute couture salons last week in new spring and summer collections looked as if they had just stepped out of a Jean Harlow or Greta Garbo movie. Hemlines had dropped to midcalf; necklines plunged revealingly; clothes were flowingly full again. This evocation of what may have been couture's grandest era-from the mid-1920s to the late '30s-was not simply a salute to nostalgia. The designers seemed to be saying that...
Their three-page statement to George F. Carrier, chairman of the commission and Coolidge Professor of Applied Math, concludes, "Consequently, we request that the Commission investigate the matter to insure that all students are graded in an equitable fashion...
...conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely to hold the line against further advances by the left, but to carry the battle over to the offensive." Then I got it. The battle was being waged by the offensive. It wasn...