Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired so soon that he said: "Maybe I should have been even money.") Noted for both his intelligence and his integrity, the analyst is the supreme court of gambling. Important disputes are sent to him for adjudication. His rulings are a major part of gambling's unwritten but intricate code...
Well, Harold Schmidt has done it again. He managed to prepare some 80 or so amateur singers in less than six weeks and put on a superlative concert in Sanders Theatre. The result showed the wisdom of the Summer School administration in disregarding its unwritten rule of not engaging the same choral conductor in successive summers. Schmidt's accomplishment is all the more remarkable in view of the facts that he was beset by unusual handicaps this summer and that he chose works of greater difficulty than in the past...
...policy. It is one often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college or who have annual incomes over $5000. Once accepted as a national instead...
...North, and who, practicably speaking, have never vote nor representative in government . . . . This segregation is of a political, psychoanalytical, and meta-physical nature. In a land which is so proud of what it calls "social mobility" which becomes more and more mythical as things become stabilized an according to unwritten law which ten to assert once and for all the supremacy of Nordics, of whites over blacks, of Protestants over all the rest--each ethnic group owes it to itself to prove its often imaginary purity. The government has in vain stepped up publication of its propaganda posters and buses...
However, it was not considered cricket for a professional to become the team captain. The first man for whom that unwritten rule was broken is Yorkshireman Len Hutton, one of Britain's alltime cricket greats...