Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service," followed by an abbreviation of the state and the first three digits of the area's zip code...
...without one for more than 19 centuries-unless one considers the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commission to teach that Gospel a constitution. Of course the church has had rules and laws aplenty, an accumulating and confusing morass of canons that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have o conform. This Lex Fundamentalis, as it is known in ecclesiastical...
...dynamic, evolving church. That apparently made Pope Paul VI a bit apprehensive and, even as the council closed in 1965, he suggested that the church needed a fundamental law to guide it. The assignment of drawing one up promptly went to the commission already at work revising the code of canon law, now under the eye of astute Conservative Pericle Cardinal Felici...
...Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which predates the 3,700-year-old Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled out: "If a man bites the nose of another...
...worst afflictions, however, were the Penal Laws passed by the Parliament in Dublin to ensure the continued supremacy of the Protestant minority. Protestant Wolfe Tone characterized the laws as "that execrable and infamous code, framed with the art and the malice of demons, to plunder and degrade and brutalize the Catholics." Execrable they were. Catholic priests were branded on the cheek with a red-hot iron if they failed to register their names and the names of their parishes. Catholics were excluded from political life and forbidden their own schools. They were not permitted to marry Protestants, acquire land from...