Word: sacrosanctity
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...result of the misunderstanding the placards were torn down from the bulletin boards which were considered too sacrosanct for the posting of police circulars...
...issue is hardly sacrosanct. Preliminary forays by the Law School Record have exposed data on costs elsewhere which merit serious attention. While there is surely no reason to reach an a priori assumption that "more for the money" is a practical possibility, there is even less justification for an official attitude nonchalantly glossing over the entire matter. Such a guarded status quo too easily becomes accepted as inviolate by a student population caught bodily in the rapid maelstrom of life in Cambridge...
...boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment of some friends as judges. The outraged Senators politely told her to scram. When Evita complained to Juancito, the entire body was summoned to the Casa Rosada to be scolded officially for bad manners...
...Republicans make some cuts for the record and still let a Democratic administration operate comfortably. But there was a hard-rock basis to many items. Few thought that national defense could be had more cheaply, except by merging the armed forces. The $5 billion for debt service was sacrosanct; so was the loan commitment to Britain; so were nearly all veterans' benefits, tax refunds and pensions...
...most sacrosanct doctrine in biology had been called in question. The two biological revolutionists who did it-Drs. Sol Spiegelman and Martin D. Kamen of Washington University, St. Louis-fled home from Manhattan this week, hotly pursued by biological tories. They had attacked the Divine Right of Genes...