Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic due process and academic freedom. Within this framework, there is an important question as to the individual domain of administrators; questions of the bounds to which a dean, say, is restricted when dealing with different sectors of the University. It seems clear that Kilbridge has flaunted the unwritten limitations of a dean's powers. Perhaps Pusey gave him carte blanche to "clean up" the GSD; if so, then Kilbridge accepted the mandate and applied it with a striking lack of tact and reason...
...frequently masked with towels. From under a forest of red banners, they would let go a barrage of stones for a salutation. The police, brandishing nightsticks, would retaliate with exploding tear-gas charges. Even in the most impassioned confrontations, however, the actors on both sides rigidly adhered to an unwritten law: no killing...
...rightfully centers upon the nature of the black South's middle class and its control of the scope and direction of the protest. "The middle class in Montgomery felt it had pushed far enough; that it did not need open schools, parks or playgrounds; that was part of the unwritten contract with the system...
...Episcopal Church, already involved heavily in more than $4,000,000 worth of special programs for minority assistance, made an additional $200,000 grant in 1969 to the National Committee of Black Churchmen, with the unwritten but clear understanding that it would be passed on to B.E.D.C. And though contributions have dropped, partly because of backlash over that and other controversial grants, the church has maintained the programs despite its financial crisis...
...rise in the field of news commentary, Agnew discussed the historical tradition of vice presidential obscurity. He concluded that finding "no authoritative reason why a Vice President is required to choose between catalepsy and garrulity, I forsook the comfortable code of many of my predecessors, abandoned the unwritten rules-and said something...