Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades...
...though the demand for decree powers may be, the record of past years has shown that it is practically inconceivable that the Assembly, as now constituted, would be able to pass any strong constitutional reform or legislate some form of independence for Algeria. Working through the Cabinet, with only watchdog legislative committees in session, there is a chance that de Gaulle may be able to make these vital changes. President Coty and the French Assembly have taken a calculated risk that de Gaulle will be a deliverer rather than a dictator. They have much to gain and, in the present...
Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last...
Four times between March and December last year the Control Yuan, Nationalist China's legislative watchdog body, summoned Premier O.K. Yui to come before the Yuan to answer charges of waste in 15 government agencies. Four times Yui refused. When Yui rejected a fifth summons on the ground that, under the constitution, he does not have to answer to the Control Yuan, the legislators' pent-up frustration exploded. The Control Yuan formally voted to impeach the Premier...
...LION AND THE THRONE, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Biography in the grand manner; the life and times of Sir Edward Coke, who became the watchdog of the common law, bluntly told British kings that law was their sovereign and defined legal principles that stand triumphant three centuries later...