Word: suspends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader may be aware of recent advances in surgery by which an amputated limb can be successfully reunited with the victim. He may then be induced to suspend his natural incredulity when told that a criminal condemned to death has donated his body for dismemberment in the interests of science, and that all the parts will be usefully employed to patch up other people. The French government, as representative of a loffical people, has worked it out that such procedures will do much to repair the military disadvantages of having a smaller population than the U.S. or China; one soldier...
...Greece and the Balkans this month, New York Times Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger was making the news as well as reporting it. After a brief stop in Athens, he wrote that Greece was once again "polarizing dangerously to ward left and right." King Constantine, Sulzberger speculated, might "even temporarily suspend some of the Constitution" to meet the threat presented by "former Premier George Papandreou, the country's most popular demagogue, and his son Andreas, an engaging but arrogantly ambitious power-seeker, increasingly linked to the far-out left...
...long as draft quotas remain abnormally high, the Administrative Board should suspend or at least render flexible its requirement that students stay out of academic life during the two-term "cooling-off" period. The University has long prided itself on standing behind the students it admits and maintaining faith in their ability to study and learn. There is no reason to retain a policy that might deny an undergraduate the second chance to make it at Harvard...
...publish any statement by public officials that may hurt the accused in court. Arguments made in court in the absence of the jury, or evidence excluded by the judge, will not be published either. The rules, to be sure, include an escape clause: the papers reserve the right to suspend them in such extraordinary circumstances as a major crime wave...
Boots & Cable. Holder of the post ever since it was created four years ago, Chicago-born Mansfield, 44, is a onetime investigative staff member of congressional committees who bears the rank of Assistant Secretary of State, and is empowered to suspend almost any aid program. Thus Mansfield and his 24 fellow traveling inspectors are greeted on their journeys abroad with apprehensive cooperation, if not jubilation-further encouraged by the frequent assumption that the Inspector General is a relative of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (he isn't). Mansfield and his operatives have tracked everything from 24 million bushels...