Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven--most of whom are resisters themselves--acted as an "ad hoc group" representing the students of Harvard Divinity School...
...name of the program is Night Call, and it is carried live (11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., E.D.T.) five evenings a week on an ad hoc chain that has grown from 21 to 57 radio stations in less than three months. Listeners anywhere may phone collect (Area Code 212: 749-3311) and argue racial issues with an influential national figure who is guest of the night, say James Baldwin, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Muhammad All, Sargent Shriver or Arthur Miller...
...Beecher asked Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, to sponsor the Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death. Testifying before a Senate investigation into scientific research on humans increased Beecher's feeling that such a committee was necessary...
...hoc group, calling itself the International Witnesses Against Genocide, has called a meeting for 6 p.m. tonight in Phillips Brooks House. The Witnesses will be asking people around the nation, and, they hope, around the world, to wear a black star with the word IBO in it, as a reminder of the yellow star "once imposed upon the victims of another 'final solution'" of the Nazis. Ibo is the name of a Biafran tribe...
...Sorbonne became a city-state. A complete social structure was erected to fulfill the needs of a fluctuating population that varied from 1,500 to 2,000. At the start, the occupants decided not to form a central governing organization but to rely on spontaneous action and ad hoc committees to deal with day-today problems. They wanted to eliminate once and for all any central authority and bureaucracy that would dictate policy. A system of Soviets was set up in which each group was autonomous and every decision arrived at by consensus...