Word: leaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruled the court. Clearly, law officers can ask a suspect his name, and if they can do that, they can ask his social security number as well. Said Judge Horace Troop (269-01-6697), with Judge Robert Holmes (284-16-9567) and Judge Robert Leach (330-40-5373) concurring: "In this modern day, name and social security number are in practice interchangeable. A citizen is no longer just a name. He is at once also a number. We are but a very short step removed from the issuance of a number with a birth certificate. To be a man without...
Richard H. Field '26 will occupy the Story Professorship, held by W. Barton Leach '21 until his retirement last June...
...bobbies at times break into homes without warrants and on the flimsiest evidence, often entering at night to heighten "the shock effect." Release is helping to discourage such arbitrary police behavior. "My impression is that the police are being much more careful with search and seizure," says Father Kenneth Leach, an Anglican curate in London's Soho district. "Release is reaching ordinary youthful offenders, the inarticulate ones who are most likely to be the victims of police abuse...
...Increase. "The financial community," says Executive Vice President Ralph F. Leach of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., "needs a strong signal to break the inflationary psychology which dominates its thinking. Seeds of disaster have been sown." Like many other bankers and economists, Leach insists that both federal spending cuts and a tax increase have become "absolutely imperative" to avoid financial chaos. Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve Board would clamp down on credit. But the Treasury's need to finance at least another $5 billion of federal deficit by year's end-and much more in 1968-locks...
...prosperity or plague. These magic men were precious possessions, to be carefully guarded against contamination or capture. Sometimes they were incarcerated in darkness to keep them from the influence of the sun and moon, sometimes they were prevented from even touching the ground for fear that the earth might leach out their power. If the magic did fail-when the crops were poor or the hunting bad or the enemy prevailed-then it was time to get rid of the old king...