Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called for a "root and branch" investigation of the entire industry. President Johnson echoed the request in his State of the Union message last week, and Senate hearings are due this spring. One likely result is that the McCarran-Ferguson Act may be amended to impose federal standards on lax state insurance commissions...
...mingle in Stony Brook's wide-open dormitories. The spies claimed they had taken part in a large LSD party in a dormitory lounge, witnessed many drug sales, mainly of marijuana but also of opium and mescaline. The university's supervision of the dorms was so lax, police charged, that a number of nonstudents seeking kicks had moved right in. Following agent-drawn maps of where suspects lived, surprised raiders barged into one room and found, instead of their target, his sister, her husband and their two children...
Worried by overcrowding, low admission standards and lax discipline, a group of alumni in 1961 persuaded the Boston school committee to institute competitive entrance exams and to transfer elsewhere students who flunk a subject two years in a row. The real rejuvenation started only with the appointment three years ago of Headmaster Wilfred O'Leary, an unashamed autocrat with a classics degree from Boston College who cracks heads as easily as he conjugates Latin verbs...
Already, Dean Ford said, the Ad Board is "very lax" in enforcing the letter of the language requirement which recognizes only strephosymbolia--a physical learning disorder--as justification for exemption...
...piece. It is a jewel. In casting about for historical justifications of their actions, Walzer writes, the Puritans seized on the Biblical account of the flight from Egypt. Cromwell's Saints saw in Moses' struggle with the turpitudinous Israelites a conflict similar to their own battle with the lax English folk. Guided by this intuition he uses Biblical sources to interpret Moses' as a revolutionary leader. As might be expected, the evidence is inconclusive, the argument intriguing: Moses appears as a Weberian patriarch, doing his ferocious best to keep the means of administration under his own control, finally establishing...