Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...
...When fishing history is writ, leave room for Edward Snow, who thought he caught a fish of 20 million years...
...live without war-if it will." Preamble & Purposes. The original charter drafted at Dumbarton Oaks by the U.S., Britain, Russia and China had no preamble, hardly a mention of justice, almost no hint of human aspirations. It was the lowest common denominator of Big Power concessions. The charter writ ten at San Francisco contains a significant but at present unenforceable bill of human rights. The equality of all states is solemnly affirmed, although the whole structure of the organization denies...