Word: code
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legal fight centered on Article 3 (a) of the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice, which says that former service men who committed major crimes while in the armed forces "shall not be relieved from amenability to trial by courts-martial" by reason of their civilian status...
...answer the West's challenge, his opposite numbers concluded that he had been relegated to the status of an "operator." He had the air of a man quoting from something. But the bland and deceptive phrases he rolled out were still an instructive lesson in Russian truespeak, a code designed to confuse the inattentive. Herewith, a running translation of Molotovisms...
...Sundays has been forbidden in England since 1678. Colonial lawyers only expanded the British precedent with typical thoroughness, among other things, forbidding a man to kiss his wife on the Lord's Day. Since the no-kissing days, chapter 136 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the blue law code, has been amended many times. Censorship of entertainment grew out of one of these amendments...
...Boston city government took the loss of its censoring power with little grace. Under the police power of the morals code, the city still retains the right to stop the showing of any "lewd, indecent, or obscene" picture, to confiscate the film, and to fine the exhibitor or revoke his license. But before these powers can be exercised, the film must have been shown publicly at least once. Accordingly, on the night when The Game of Love opened a delegation from city hall, including the mayor, was on hand to debate the picture's obscenity. After some days of soul...
...nucleus centering around Upton, however, remained strongly opposed to any change in the existing code. "We would welcome any appropriate use of the land, any, legitimate academic project," Upton said. He felt that the housing project was too commercial and not of significant benefit to the University...