Word: officialdom
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After a considerable length of time, during which officialdom busied itself at the front of the room and we wanted herdlike in our seats at the back, the judge came in. He wasted no time in beginning us on the oath of allegiance; an official read it, phrase by phrase, and we repeated it after him, right down to the inflections. "Here-to-fore..." cried the reader, chopping out every syllably; "here-to-fore . . ." we responded. Throughout the swearing of the oath another beadle marched up and down the aisles, eyeing us to make sure that there weren...
...believe that the only large-scale support for UMT comes from a military officialdom, whose motive, consciously or unconsciously, is to increase its size, budget, permanency, prestige, and power. There is a grave danger to democracy when an official group, claiming the indispensability of its program to the national welfare, is so readily believed. David Drake '52 Undergraduate co-chairman Peace Council...
...forecast more effective allied action in Southeast Asia, urged the Israelis to make peace with the Arabs, and then startled everyone (and roused no applause) by suggesting that U.S. forces might some day help guard the Suez Canal. (This proposal drew an adverse response from three interested parties: Washington officialdom, the British press and the Egyptian government...
...thinking," of course, is not new. MacArthur and many others proposed it months ago. Indeed, no other practical and honorable way out of the Korean war has ever been suggested. The "new thinking" is merely new in the sense that Washington top officialdom has now agreed...
...District Judge Elmer Adams gave Clark custody of his two oldest children, ordered him to give his ex-wife $50 a month for the support of the others. John Clark, who has remarried and gone back to the junk yard at $43 a week, had had about enough of officialdom. He would go to jail, he declared, rather than pay the court's assessments...