Word: unwritten
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DIED. CLYDE SUKEFORTH, 98, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
Which makes it all the more surprising to find him later teaching a gymnastics class for the disabled, whom he identifies with because of his attention-deficit disorder. The unwritten rule of TV's teen portrayals is that they must be cautionary tales, all sex and guns and social decay. Cutler set out instead to capture a poignant crossroads--"when you're a kid, rushing to grow up, and an adult, hanging on to the last vestiges of childhood." High dares, subversively, to find decency in its children of suburban comfort, from Morgan to soulful jock Robby to Kaytee...
...while the numbers reflect a vastly different Harvard being shaped, it was in the lecture halls, dining halls and social mixers where the unwritten divisions between veterans and non-veterans were either solidified or slowly faded, and a new College community was shaped...
...whom have chauffeurs, the car is built for a backseat passenger. Air-conditioning and radio controls face the backseat. The chassis has been strengthened to deal with China's bad road surfaces. The V6 engine has been reduced from 3.1 liters to 2.98 to get around an unwritten rule in China that only people of ministerial level are allowed to drive 3-liter cars...
...some useful presidential habits. Speak less, listen more. Don't form hasty conclusions. If you decide, decide. Calculate your responses. Don't betray your own. Putin, he says, "applies these principles to life in general." But a dedicated ex-agent admits that the system drills in some less positive unwritten rules. Don't say anything you don't need to say. Be underestimated. Putin, says this former spy, "will apply the same code of behavior to representing his country...