Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city slickers realized was that Johnson, who resigned from the State Supreme Court to campaign, was having an electric effect on Arkansas' farmers and hill folk. His attraction was not entirely based on his segregationist views. He vowed that his election would end the twelve-year rule of the Faubus machine. He called Lyndon Johnson, who is none too popular in Arkansas, a "socialist" and a "parasite." He also, on occasion, made Washington sound like Sodom and Gomorrah...
...articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
...Charles Wohlstetter, told Cantor that he had no business accompanying the next of kin to the cemetery. Then, troubled because no price had been agreed upon with Sculptor Noguchi for his design, the executors demanded written notice from the sisters that they would indemnify the executors should the courts rule that the sum spent for burial was more than "a reasonable amount...
...committee offered two possible explanations: either many doctors failed to report that the women who died of the thromboembolism had been taking the pills-or else the pills are actually protective against such disease. Cautiously, the committee chose underreporting as an explanation. But it could not rule out the alternative...
Unenforceable Rule. The committee paid no heed to minor side effects such as acne and weight gain. Even on the major effects, the pills cannot be certified as completely safe until after years of detailed study on tens of thousands of patients. But the committee felt confident enough to recommend that the FDA stop forbidding doctors to prescribe the pills for more than four consecutive years. To this the FDA agreed. The rule is unenforceable and penalizes poor patients getting the pills at clinics. Apparently, the committee concluded, the pills cause no major harmful effects within four years...