Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed. Moments earlier, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...
...learned just how urgent this question is when I tried to call the student government office at Harvard. "There is no student government organization," I was told by an administrator in the office of the Dean of Students. "It's been defunct for a long time." After a few more phone calls, I learned that there is indeed a student government organization--called the Student Assembly--but it hasn't been recognized by the administration. By God, an unrecognized student government! How can this be? A student government is essential to any university, for it is the only organized liaison...
...short fiction provided another recourse. Luckily for Faulkner, at the time it was enormous: the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, American Mercury, American Magazine, This Week, Woman's Home Companion, Country Gentleman, Scribner's magazine. Faulkner received rejections from all of these journals, some now defunct, as well as from a few survivors like The New Yorker, but he also published enough to buy precious time for his novels...
...will assume full control over courts, police and prisons. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government is trying to make things as comfortable as possible for the remaining Zonians. They will have PX privileges at the army bases to compensate for their loss of the subsidized commissary once run by the now defunct Panama Canal Co. They will also receive free postage, and schooling for their children will be provided by the Pentagon. Said Major General Harold Parfitt, the 17th and last governor of the zone, who is going home to Texas: "There will be no tomorrows, only yesterdays, for the Canal Zone...
...University acquired the Riesman Center building about ten years ago. It had housed the defunct Iroquois Club--ironically, one of the few finals clubs to accept Jews before World War I, Rosovsky said. More recently it was the site of Sanctuary, a haven for "street people," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday...