Word: rubber-stamps
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From every side the President was jeered for his national appeal to the voters to give him what amounted to a rubber-stamp Congress. Samples...
...Vatican observers, the rules indicated that bishops would not be coming to Rome merely to rubber-stamp predetermined decisions. Among the decrees expected from the council: a dogmatic statement on the bishops' position in the church, permission for more widespread use of vernacular in the liturgy, a definition of the church's stand on religious toleration for non-Catholics...
...hectic week of orientation, the wide-eyed young freshman found herself left in peace, and usually in isolation, to make what she would of her college experience. If she was neither a psychotic nor a genius, the chances were that her adviser would turn out to be a kindly rubber-stamp device with virtually no interest in whether she majored in English or physics. Nor did anyone seem to care care whether she rounded off her four years by marrying an eligible Ivy Leaguer or by scuttling off to graduate school in quest of a Ph.D. No one, except...
...twelve minutes last week, Nikita Khrushchev was out of a job. As required by Soviet law, he solemnly tendered his resignation at the first meeting of the new Supreme Soviet-Russia's rubber-stamp Parliament, which was "chosen" last month by 99.47% of all adult Russians who voted for the 1,443 candidates of the Communist Party's choice. Then, in hardly more time than it took one of Nikita's pals to remind delegates of his "thoughtful and many-sided works," Khrushchev was unanimously re-elected to his second four-year term as Chairman...
...Communist mainland, there was ample indication of the economic crisis cited by Chiang Kaishek, but almost no information about what the Reds were doing about it. China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, met last week in Peking's crimson-carpeted, air-conditioned Great Hall for the first time in two years, but unlike previous sessions, no foreign diplomats or correspondents were permitted inside...