Word: prefectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused of tolerating "degrading punishment." Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...
They shall not pass," declared Prefect René Jannin of the department of Isère, invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
...Harvard Hockey team will be seeking its first prefect Ivy record since 1957 as it meets the Yale icemen in In galls Rink in New Haven tonight...
...Years. Once in, the students are paid some $475 a month for the 29-month course. The first year they are likely to be sent out to a foreign embassy or a prefect's office in the provinces. "It's learning by doing," says Director Racine. Part of the second year is spent in private industry or working for a nationalized company. There is no formal curriculum, but the students are required to write papers on such issues as monetary reform or the 1973 Brandt-Brezhnev accord. They also attend frequent seminars, conducted by top civil servants, diplomats...
...politicians, who are being blamed for doing nothing to improve Naples' woefully antiquated sanitation system. With typical Italian overstatement, the city officials are being referred to as "that band of cuckolds and brigands." Last weekend a mob of unemployed mussel fishermen assaulted the car of Naples Prefect Domenico Amari as it approached city hall, setting off three days of rioting that resulted in a dozen injuries and eight arrests. Politicians of all shades loudly began accusing one another of negligence and corruption, tossing the blame around like an infected mussel. Exhausted by the uproar, Mayor Gerardo De Michele abruptly...