Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policeman may stop, frisk and question any person "observed in circumstances which suggest" that he has been or is about to be involved in criminal activity. After 20 minutes, the person must be freed, or arrested and taken to the station house, or given a summons to appear in court. Every such detention must be fully recorded...
...most popular resolution stated "No person whether in college or out, should be forced to interrupt his normal life to risk death in the Vietnam War. We call on the faculty to withhold grades from the Brandeis administration until that administration pledges to withhold from the Selective Service system any information about the academic performance of any student...
...gets a Harvard secretary? Any person or organization that wants one and can afford her salary. It's a process not unlike calling Elsie's for a roast beef special, and specifying "no Russian," A professor, for example, will call up the Personnel Office, say he needs a secretary, and suggest how much he can pay her. He is asked to list, as completely as he can, his secretary's duties. The professor may also request a "type" of girl, such as married. The Personnel Office sends over as many girls for interviews as could possibly fit the "order...
Into the life of a thoroughly conventional family comes a very unusual stranger: a natural person in the midst of artifice, a storm center in the midst of tedium. The family reacts and changes, until at last, when the stranger disappears, their lives are altered forever...
...began with a taunt. Repeatedly accused by Tory Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker of mishandling national security matters, Justice Minister Lucien Cardin stood up in the House of Commons and fired back. "He is the very last person who can afford to give advice on the handling of security cases," charged the peppery French Canadian. So saying, he challenged Diefenbaker to "tell about his participation in the 'Monseignor case' when he was Prime Minister...