Word: sacrosanctity
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...House "Kitchen Committee" was back from France with orders for postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...
...officers lounged all day in the sacrosanct wardroom. They kept their hats on in the wardroom, a scandalous violation of naval etiquette. Some of them even sat with their feet on the tables. None of them seemed to do any work. . . . Coarse, extramarital exploits were discussed openly at the dinner table. Some of the officers drank. . . . With his own ears he had heard various officers speak seditiously of the ship and the Navy and, worst of all, of the captain. . . . Young Keith was hocked; he was shocked...
...case of the present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation, meetings at which all outsiders, from Dean to doorman, are barred. Durant must accept the law as it comes down from the mountain and administer...
...almost every labor-union member, a picket line is sacrosanct: he would rather see than cross one. Last week the hair on union ears bristled at a heretic's cry. Said an editorial in the Teamster, organ of the powerful Teamsters union...
...Latin delegates, feeling the muscle of their 20 conference votes, unanimously demanded complete freedom from any-check or supervision by the Security Council. Senators Connally and Vandenberg, well aware of the Monroe Doctrine's sacrosanct appeal to the Senate, felt that some concession to the turbulent Latins was necessary if the charter was to be ratified...