Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was used as a set for Paramount's Sunset Boulevard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-author of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice...
According to the Brigades' most recent handbook, violence is the only means by which the proletariat can take power away from the bourgeoisie. Once that transfer of power is made, the centralized government will be abolished and control will go to small local assemblies. "There can be no halfway solutions, no half measures," asserts Carmo. "That won't work. We must have either pure socialism or we will go back to fascism. The workers in Portugal have shown that they do not want central power or a central authority...
...Flemings are willing to say to young people, or to anybody. They assiduously avoid drawing conclusions or giving advice on the subject of sex. "I would not presume to tell anybody how to proceed about anything," says Anne. "If this will help somebody, terrific. But it's not a handbook." And Karl adds, "My expertise ends at raising chickens and growing tomatoes...
...first rule in the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations is that everyone must know the rules. Students caught deliberately sneaking a book out of the library are "ordinarily requested to withdraw," posters over 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches require prior approval of the dean, and no student may play "boisterous games in the Yard." The rules seem fairly innocuous...
...additions to this year's handbook was a regulation stating that anyone who hasn't paid his bill by the start of the term "will not be allowed to register and is subject to disciplinary action" [emphasis added]. The effect of this rule is fairly traumatic on a lot of students, especially since the Office of Fiscal Services doesn't send bills home during the summer, just complicated "worksheets." The policy gets results--one student from San Francisco bought a blank check at Bob Slate's and wrote out a $3000 check on a nonexistent account in a California bank...