Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DuBois entered the Boylston prize-speaking contest in 1890 "because I needed the money" and came away with second prize. His friend Clement Morgan, also black, won first prize, and DuBois helped organize a small revolt in his class to elect Morgan Class Day speaker, breaking an unwritten rule which had traditionally reserved this distinction for students from fashionable Back...
...event. Cabled TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager from Beirut: "The fighting brought into the open old fears of sectarian feuding in a country whose delicate political structure is a tapestry of extraordinary complexity, based on an almost even division of Christians and Moslems in a population of 3.1 million. An unwritten national covenant gives Christians a slight political edge, as if to compensate for their fears of being absorbed by the Moslem majority around them." Under this arrangement, the President is always a Maronite Christian, the Premier a Sunni Moslem, the speaker of the unicameral parliament a Shi'a Moslem...
...MIDDLE EAST, which is a source of oil that is vital to the U.S. and its trading partners and also, because of Israel, the locus of a powerful, if unwritten U.S. defense commitment...
...expected, both teams played a fast skating, clean game. Unlike the previous nigh against Cornell, there was no cheap stuff between the two squads. Each team had a healthy respect for the other, as though there was an unwritten agreement between the players to avoid needless rough stuff in the corners and around...
When Israel achieved independence, it adopted Great Britain's system of an "unwritten constitution." At the same time, the Israeli Parliament determined to enact a series of laws which would form the basis for a future constitution...