Word: rewording
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Warren and Frankfurter had their first notable collision in public one day in 1957, when Frankfurter dared to interrupt Warren and reword some convoluted questions that the Chief Justice was putting to a lawyer. Warren flushed, began to shout: "Let him answer my question! He is confused enough as it is." Frankfurter grew pale behind his eyeglasses and cut back, "Confused by Justice Frankfurter, I presume." In 1958, they were at it again: Warren lashed Frankfurter, charging that one of his dissents made the court out to be "savage." And just six weeks ago the Chief Justice publicly criticized Frankfurter...
...question of oral vs. written exams the instructors were not in complete unanimity. The staff decided however, to give a two-hour exam in the reading period with general questions composed by all the tutors. Each tutor may them choose certain questions or reword them to make them conform to the aims of his particular tutorial...
...after the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees voted to reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
Next Chase Peterson read a reworded Sapers amendment to the previous week's recommendation on membership rules for undergraduate organizations. Peterson headed a special "style committee" to reword this endorsement of Academic freedom and he introduced it with an apologetic: "This will not have a profound effect on undergraduates...
...Congressional formula for forestalling the impending strike-wave and creating industrial peace appears to be to take over the NAM program, reword it, and attempt to foist as much of it on the unions as is compatible with the Republican ambitions for 1948. One of the major impediments to Congressional action is the dispute between Speaker Martin and Senator Taft as to whether the foisting should be done piecemeal or it toto...