Word: profession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal law regulates campaign spending -the amended Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. The law limits the amount that an individual contributor can donate to a single campaign committee; so candidates organize a multiplicity of committees. The law requires candidates to report expenditures of which they are aware; so they profess general unawareness. It bars corporate contributions; so corporate executives act as individuals in distributing company largesse. It bans labor-union outlays; so unions form political-action committees. The law's effectiveness may be measured by the fact that no candidate has ever been convicted of violating...
...More Broads. At men's-lib meetings, great emphasis is placed on recognizing "male chauvinism." Members compare women to oppressed minorities and castigate themselves as oppressors. They profess to believe, in the words of a University of Wisconsin professor, that "just as the first step for a white man in handling racial prejudice is to confess his own racism, so we are trying to deal with our own chauvinism." How? The general strategy advocated at most men's-lib sessions is to stop calling women "broads" or "chicks" and to take on more responsibility for birth control, child...
...Trans World Airlines pilot who had criticized the bureau's handling of the 1969 Minichiello hijacking case. Damning the FBI as the "Federal Bureau of Intimidation," the Senator said: "Despite Mr. Nixon's words, I cannot believe that he can any longer with a straight face profess his confidence in Mr. Hoover." In fact, the mounting campaign against Hoover has probably forced the White House to defend the FBI chief at a time when it privately would have welcomed his resignation...
Scores and scores of jurors are excused immediately because they watch the evening news or read the daily paper and have formed opinions about the case. Of course, many of those who profess to have opinions may be merely trying to avoid an unpleasant duty. And many of those who deny being prejudiced may have an ulterior motive for getting on the jury...
...military court 16 young radicals from Spain's northern Basque country are on trial on charges of assorted "separatist-terrorist-Communist activities." The 16 are members of the E.T.A. (for Euskadi at Askatusana-"Basque Land and Liberty" in Basque), a small, militant group of terrorists who profess to be fighting for local autonomy...