Word: hoc
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...went on to observe that a standing committee can discuss general educational problems with the CEP, whereas the present ad hoc committees are limited to a study of one specific issue...
...punish Milazzo, and to regain dominance of Catholic Sicily, the Christian Democrats appealed to the Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York...
...When three Negroes won their suit this winter to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration in Atlanta, Governor S. Ernest Vandiver asked the board of regents to freeze new enrollment in the state's university system. The legislature pitched in with a patently ad hoc law setting the top age limit for entering classes in the university system at 21 (all three Negroes are over 21). The result, predictably ridiculous: in the last quarter, the number of students signed up for classes at the University of Georgia's seven adult-education centers has dropped...
Working on a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, and with the assistance of the Educational Testing Service (part of the College Board organization), Dr. Conant visited 55 comprehensive small town high schools in 18 states. His report takes the form of ad hoc suggestions for improving these schools and others which presumably resemble them. The suggestions range from increased time for teaching English composition to requiring that talented students study science and foreign languages...
Vincent, who was chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department from 1945-47, suggested that a United Nations ad hoc committee made up of Asian countries would be a "more reasonable" technique than our present "go it alone" policy...