Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governments. (Sample questions: Where do presidential electors cast ballots for President? Name two rights a person has after he has been indicted by a grand jury.) To prove literacy, each applicant had to write down passages from the Constitution read to him by the registrar. The registrar was the sole judge of whether the applicant's writing was passable, and whether his test answers were correct...
...should draw up a set of rules for the handling of elections, so that the sole authority over them would not be exercised by a single HCUA bureaucrat...
Macaque samples some extraordinary vintages: nubile Numeril ("Fileted like a sole, boneless, squirming as a serpent"); Christina, the mountainous Scandinavian masseuse ("Like all scenery, she had to be viewed from a distance. Close by, the charm of the wood was lost in the trees of her passion"). I He generously introduces his conquests to wealthy acquaintances, causing some to snort that he is no better than a pimp, "a vulgarism which I repudiate. I regard myself as a creator, a man of sensitivity who feels that every jewel deserves its casket...
John E. Collins, headmaster of the Newman Preparatory School, was the sole witness for the Attorney General's office. He testified that Fanny arouses "prurient interest" in a reader and that it is "hard core pornography." When Rombar queried him on his understanding of the meaning of prurient," Collins replied that "dirty," "sexual," and "esoteric" would all be acceptable definitions...
...sole action of the play is a state senatorial inquiry into a case of child buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that...