Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based squarely on the federal courts' power to punish contempt is an essential function of the Federal Government: the use of injunctions and restraining orders to prevent acts that would damage an individual or the public interest. The injunction is the Government's principal means of enforcing more than two dozen federal statutes, including the antitrust laws, the Atomic Energy Act and the Securities Exchange Act. Not one of these 20-odd statutes carries a jury-trial provision, and expert opinion holds that many of them, because of their complexity, would be unenforceable if it took a jury...
Angelo (Raf Vallone) is a lusty Italian peasant, but no cad; for him, sex is a virtually impersonal bodily function, and he is delighted to find himself in the presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have...
...monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect,/ A broken voice, and his whole function suiting/ With forms to his conceit...
...Know That . . ." Turning to the question of Red China's membership in the U.N., Dulles noted that the U.N. is not a "reformatory for bad governments . . ." Communist Russia, with veto power, already seriously limits'the U.N.'s peacemaking function, and Communist China in the U.N. would compound the damage. "Should a regime which in seven years has promoted five foreign or civil wars-Korea, Indo-China, Tibet, the Philippines and Malaya; which itself has fought the U.N. and which today stands condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor; which defies the U.N. decision to reunify Korea; which...
...volunteer's interest in the child is very quickly reflected by the child through his or her interest in the volunteer. Once this relationship is established and the volunteer becomes more familiar with the work, the range of function becomes correspondingly greater. Where at first work on the grounds is encouraged so that the child will not associate his or her volunteer with going away, later the volunteer may take his group or child for walks, on picnics, to the zoo, the movies, or wherever the child wants...