Word: forma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court. Weinberg's confession did not meet the requirements, and the prosecution had little other evidence against him. Whether they knew it or not, the psychiatrists were freeing him. All Weinberg had to do was hang on to his mental balance until a pro forma hearing made his release official...
...impartial observer who followed the hearings says, however, that the Harvard statement was more a pro forma gesture rather than document of intent. He feels certain from observing the hearings that it is Harvard's intention to bargain with the union that truly represents the BGMA workers...
...election next week, said a spokesman for Americans for Democratic Action, will be "pro forma"-which hardly speaks well for their democratic action. Still, the A.D.A.'s nominating committee had made such an imposing choice for its new national chairman that the membership is really not likely to complain. The unopposed candidate: Harvard Economist and old New Frontiersman John Kenneth Galbraith...
...frame specially adapted for it by Manhattan Framemaker Robert Kulicke (who charged $1,240 for 62 hours' work). Visitors could observe both the 151-in. by 141-in. portrait and the juniper-and-laurel device on the reverse side of its wooden panel, inscribed with a scroll: Virtutem Forma Decorat (Beauty Enhances Virtue...
...enforce discipline and assure permanent control, the party sows the land with 3,000,000 paid propagandists and 3,000,000 "inspectors." Even its spies have spies. Against this party apparatus, the government itself counts merely as a pro forma showcase structure existing only to do the party's bidding. As Avtorkhanov writes: "A modern Commu nist state can exist without its official state apparatus, but it cannot exist without its party apparatus...