Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that the appeals court clerk sent him and the defendant's lawyers letter asking them what the court should do now that it has learned of the Congressional action...
Munter has over 1000 signatures on a petition and has given out a few hundred chain letter petitions that urge President Carter to "press personally the international community for immediate relief" for the refugees in Thailand and Malaysia...
...Supreme Court's majority opinion, written by Justice William Brennan, conceded that the lower courts' rulings had followed the letter of the 1964 law, but insisted that they were not within its spirit. The primary concern of Congress was with "the plight of the Negro in our economy," Brennan wrote. It would be "ironic indeed," he said, if Title VII was used to prohibit "all voluntary, private, race-conscious efforts to abolish traditional patterns" of discrimination...
Despite the debacle, General George R. Doster, an Alabama Air National Guard commander who had taken part in what he called the most "asinine operation I ever saw," later was summoned to CIA headquarters in Virginia and permitted to read a letter commending him for his clandestine help. As he started to put it in his pocket, it was snatched away. Oh, no, he was told, it was secret and could only go in his files. He felt "like a dumb ass," Doster told Wyden...
Lytton Strachey had both, and his Eminent Victorians, which made fun of those letter-writing idols, delighted post-World War I readers, who wanted to hear the dirt about the people who had brought on the disaster. Strachey was imitated throughout the '20s and '30s and, wrote Bernard De Voto, "biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them." That game is over. In the past generation the best biographers have righted the balance, creating what approaches a fresh and vigorous art form...