Word: interjects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring her case to the Administrative Board (Ad Board), which must approve course withdrawals. He then wrote her a letter informing her that the Ad Board approved her request. The ambiguously-worded instruction--such as one section that stated that it "would be completely inappropriate for you to interject the specifics of your 'special circumstances' in future discussions within the University"--worried the student. She feared the letter--an official part of her University records--implied psychological problems on her part rather than a straightforward case of sexual harassment. She asked her senior tutor to rewrite it, making it more...
...rigid agenda directs the CHUL meeting, and Dean Rosovsky chairs the meeting strictly. Parliamentary procedure is closely followed, except when Rosovsky allows himself to interject an anecdote or supposedly humorous joke...
LeBoutillier's Harvard is a frightful place, inhabited by the likes of--God forbid--Charles Warren Professor of History Frank Freidel, that "liberal" who dared to interject a personal opinion about welfare into a lecture on FDR. The author is outraged. He is also surrounded. His sophomore history tutor, he says, is a Marxist. The tutor is quoted as uttering such realistic phrases as: "Jesus, how heavy, how heavy, how incredibly relevant and heavy," and, better tailored to LeBoutillier's needs: "America the Beautiful my ass. It should be America the home of fascism...
While listening to his brethren's legalistic arguments at Supreme Court conferences during the '60s, the late Chief Justice Earl Warren would impatiently interject, "Yes, yes,'yes. But is it right? Is it good?" His stance remains at once noble and unsettling. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "Part of the price of their remarkable independence, tenure, reverence, is that judges are under a special obligation to justify their opinions, even if they got there by their guts originally." Judges are supposed to look for the intent of lawmakers, heed precedent, and hesitate to read their...
...Vice-President would first utter a few sentences, at which time the interpreter, in a high-pitched "stage" voice used specifically for audiences, would interject and translate Mondale's words into Chinese. Modale praised the President, Premier Hua Kuo-feng and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, acclaimed the establishment of diplomatic ties and said "the touchstones of this new and historic chapter in Sino-American relations are equality and realism, in contrast to the "estrangement, misunderstanding and confrontation" which have characterized so much of America's previous dealings with the Asian power. He later added that our ideological differences cannot...