Word: sacrosanctity
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...Cambridge, England, long denied membership in the clannishly male, 140-year-old Cambridge Union, female Cantabrigians set up their own debating society, the Cambridge University Women's Union. Then they straightway scheduled their first debate at the sacrosanct Red Lion Hotel, where the Men's Union was born. Topic: "Resolved, that women's place is in this house." Scoffed Cambridge Union President Richard Moore: "The whole thing will probably prove only that women cannot debate...
...point I am trying to make is that if I was the proselyting victory-seeking alumnus abhorred by sacrosanct ivies, I would immediately have turned my back on both boys. A badly wrenched knee and a dubious size hardly made either of the boys any kind of risk for the football glory of the Alma Mater...
Since then, the Gran Ejido has been sacrosanct in Mexican politics. No public official dared to say that it was an abysmal failure. Profits from the henequen were raked in by corrupt bureaucrats, while henequen growers and their families lived on barely $1 a week. Mexico's total production, despite a $1.900,000 annual subsidy started by President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in 1953 (TIME, April 13, 1953), dropped steadily. Last year it hit a low of 450,000 bales, compared with the World War I high of 1,000,000 bales...
...would be provisional pending a final German peace treaty. But until then, Mendès insisted, the agreement must be "definite." There could be no agitation for return to Germany. The Saar Landtag must pass laws punishing anyone who wrote, spoke or acted against the agreement, making it as sacrosanct as the Swiss policy of neutrality (a Swiss may not agitate against neutrality...
...Truman regime, midway in the Korean war). But newsmen asked why nonmilitary spending is $505 million higher than in 1952. Humphrey explained this as "uncontrollable costs"-that is, costs that legislation forces up or prevents from being pared. And most of the increase came from three more or less sacrosanct categories: agriculture price supports, housing and veterans...