Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiely has suggested that General Education Ahf be renamed Expository Writ ing 10 in order to clarify the nature of the course to those outside the University. Expository Writing 10 would continue along the lines of Gen Ed A. meeting nine weeks in the Fall and seven weeks in the Spring...
...other guy can live and fight under those conditions," said the general, "so can we." In the baking heat and moldering humidity of the Asian mainland, the Americans applied their own revised version of the guerrilla-warfare manual that Communists from Havana to Hanoi had long regarded as holy writ. With stupendous firepower and mobility undreamed of even a decade ago, U.S. strike forces swooped into guerrilla redoubts long considered impenetrable. Like clouds of giant dragonflies, helicopters hauled riflemen and heavy artillery from base to battlefield in minutes, giving them the advantages of surprise and flexibility. Tactical air strikes scraped...
Duty to Perform. Murphy realized that he had been handed a legal riddle. No longer a military prisoner, Ashe was not eligible for a federal writ of habeas corpus. And to make matters worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed...
Repetitiveness is also writ large in The Uncommitted; Keniston repeats chapters as well as sentences. He has evidently taken the hoary Gen. Ed. A dictum to heart: say what you plan to say; say it; say what you've said. This technique puffs up what ought to be a modest essay into a 500 page book, plus a separate monograph, The Alienated Student, as yet unpublished...
...merchandise which had been confiscated because it was bound for Virginia. He outraged the Administration by filing an opinion that the Secretary of the Treasury was acting illegally when he deducted income tax from judicial salaries. He refused to sanction any attempt by the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus...