Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an ad hoc committee recommended last spring that Eileen J. Southern, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, be given a joint tenured post in Afro--a move that made her appointment all but official--it seemed that the controversy over the tenuring process for Afro had been defused...
Four Hill Road also houses the Ad Hoc Committees of the John Birch Society...
...organizational material. The Society claims that 90 per cent of the Committees' members are non-Birchers, and that 4 Hill Road only gives impetus and direction to them. But as Gotch told me apologetically as we drove away from the buildings, "The Communists have fronts. We have Ad Hoc Committees...
...language seemed innocuous enough: "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed...
Folk Foods. One reason for the diversity of recipes is that chili, like most folk foods, started out as an ad hoc combination of ingredients. For the range-riding cooks who invented it, chili consisted of scrawny beef-whose dubious flavor was masked by peppers and spices -and whatever else was around. In any case, it makes a nourishing dish. Roy M. Nakayama, 53, a New Mexico State University horticulturist who has studied peppers for 20 years and eats them three times a day, points out, "Chilis are rich in vitamins A and C. As antioxidants they also help preserve...