Word: fiat
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...police had acted in accordance with traditional procedure and must not therefore be censured, but added that the procedure ought to be modified to protect from embarrassment or indignities innocent persons summoned to the Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted...
...conception of renouncing war by governmental fiat is inherently absurd...
...Hoover. The Chicago Tribune beckoned. The New York Herald-Tribune pushed. The Scripps-Howard press coaxed and clamored and, more compelling than any of these, the Springfield Republican, a Bible to many Republicans, issued a fiat, citing 16 reasons. The last day approached, the next-to-last day arrived, and that evening Candidate Hoover did it-authorized the filing of his name to fight Senator Watson for Indiana's delegates as he was already fighting Senator Willis for Ohio...
...sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric of white. There must not be more than eight or less than six buttons, fiat, covered with the same cloth as the garments, on the front of the coat. The neck cloths must be plain black or plain white...
Inasmuch as the author pessimistically presents his charge as a fiat accompli, it seems imperative to rise up and remind him that he is dangerously on the verge of offending certain Boston sport writers who pride themselves on having classified Harvard football long ago. Their diagnosis has boldly proclaimed that there are altogether too many "gentlemanly" gentlemen in Harvard football for its own good. Such a clash of reliable judgements naturally brings the question to an impasse...