Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently personal nature of his harassment is disquieting even to those for whom in principle it does not seem entirely unreasonable. He was evidently not acting according to rules set up by a faculty committee but attempted to depose Miss Gillmor ad hoc on the basis of a projected change in rules: and the whole tone of his treatment of her, up to and including his dismissal of her protests as mere publicity-seeking, raises the most disturbing suspicions. Perhaps such treatment of a duly elected officer of a university organization deserves a certain amount of publicity. David Wade Chambers...
Ergo Propter Hoc...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...
More than 2500 students sat down in the Student Union Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday afternoon to prevent a university police car from arresting the leader of an ad hoc committee protesting recent university restrictions of campus politics...
...onrushing reality. Its successor is what might be called political-science fiction. Its practitioners aspire to write tomes that seem just like historical novels, but in the future tense. Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe, On the Beach-they have gone from Ugly to worse and from ad hoc to pure hokum. Right along with them has gone Eugene Burdick, co-author (with different partners) of both The Ugly American and Fail-Safe, and he now tries it solo...