Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recounting his own rise in the field of news commentary, Agnew discussed the historical tradition of vice presidential obscurity. He concluded that finding "no authoritative reason why a Vice President is required to choose between catalepsy and garrulity, I forsook the comfortable code of many of my predecessors, abandoned the unwritten rules-and said something...
...movies of Mae West deny "just retribution" on almost every level-the Production Code was set up in 1933 to counter the popularity of her films. Suffice it to say, Mae got away with murder-sometimes literally. But the main difference between her movies and those of Dietrich is in many ways implied by the difference in their physical charms. I was horrified to hear someone behind me at Currier House exclaiming: "Can you imagine they used to think she was beautiful" What he didn't realize is that no one, except Mae West, considered her a sex goddess. Even...
...past a stalled armor column on Route 9, swarms of U.S. helicopters laden with ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops flapped deep into Laos, settling into landing zones blasted out of the jungle by parachute-dropped 15,000-lb. bombs. From one of the new bases, code-named Sophia, 1,500 crack ARVN 1st Division troops punched five miles northward through brisk Communist fire. Backed by prodigious U.S. airpower, they exultantly entered Tchepone, the key Communist transshipment site that had been pinpointed as a major objective. Almost immediately, 1,000 reinforcements were helilifted to the heights commanding...
...past and future, its own newspapers with their own ideas about the present, its own ideas about management and labor and democracy, its own social circles, its own churches and chaplains, its own hospitals, even its very own five-sided capitol. And to regulate it all, a separate code of justice...
Establishment of a uniform code of punishment...