Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement, my function now is to keep Gamesmanship from wandering from its basic principles, and may I therefore remind your Sport Editor that the suggestion that "the final score is the proof of the gambit" is a deviation from the Gamesmanship line...
...this activity, the inquiring Congressmen are not necessarily after headlines exclusively, although in a hot political year headlines can mean a lot. They are also exercising a historical function: the legislative check & balance on the executive. Nowadays, when the executive arm has become outsize and uncheckable by other means, the congressional investigation can dig up the facts for corrective lawmaking, give the public its best chance to see how its bureaucrats conduct themselves and how its money is being spent...
Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...
...anti-trust case began in 1947 and is still in progress. According to Wysanski, Kaysen's function has been to read, condense, and offer advice on the economic aspects of the "voluminous evidence" that has been built up. Memoranda and comments compiled by the economist will aid in the preparation of the ultimate findings of the case...
...believes that only when the ultimate, communist society has been attained, "can the proletariat destroy the state . . . as an agency of persuasion, and law as a function of the state...