Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pigs); the U.S. is deep in a 500,000-man shooting war 8,000 miles from home; attorney generals have not stuck to their basic jobs; the Supreme Court has become a manufacturer instead of an interpreter of the law; crime has tripled; strikes and riots are the rule, not the exception; the city of Washington is a thug-infested jungle; and a letter costs twice as much to post and takes twice as long to arrive...
...Your reporter writes that I suggested that parietals should be eliminated. I am not, and never have been, in favor of removing all restrictions. My proposal is to replace the present system of specifying the hours during which women guests may visit students in the Houses by the following rule: "The rooms in the Yard and the Houses are provided to accommodate the students to whom they are assigned. Other overnight occupancy of such room is forbidden." Bruce Chalmers Master of Winthrop House
...means trivial. By making instructors assistant professors, the Faculty has increased its voting membership for next year by about 70 to 100 members, and not everyone is sure that's a good idea. The Dunlop report in fact recommended that the status quo be frozen--by passing a rule requiring an assistant professor to serve three years before being allowed to vote...
...legal opinion obtained by HUC said allowing a woman in a house overnight instead of only until 1 a.m., under the present rule, would not constitute "knowingly" permitting intercourse...
Under Hadden's rule, TIME had been extraordinarily carefree and sometimes irresponsible - a state of affairs, writes Elson, which "present-day TIME editors and writers can envy." Hadden delighted in journalistic pranks. He peopled the Letters column with invented characters, most notably the puritanical lady who kept objecting to the Prince of Wales' loose living, inciting other letter writers to object to her narrow views. Since readers have sometimes discerned in TIME a special mixture of seriousness (not to say portentousness) and levity, it was easily assumed that the first quality stemmed from Luce and the second from...