Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Founding Fathers wrote a complex impeachment procedure for the removal of federal officials guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors." The House was given the power to impeach and the Senate the power to try these cases. So much for the theory. In practice, Congress has never liked all the folderol, hoping the accused would be dealt with in some other way. Up to this year, the House has impeached only 13 men, not including Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 before his impeachment was acted on by the full House. Not since 1936, when the Senate tried and removed...
...movie jargon --adding exterior scenes--but the center of the action is still the kitchen of a batty old Victorian house belonging to the sisters' dying grandfather. The company bought a nondescript house on Southport's North Caswell Street and added $200,000 worth of Victorian folderol: two towers, a gazebo, a side porch, green shutters and purple-and-yellow stained-glass windows...
...waited for the attentions of a water a waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still trod the floor boards of Server and Emerson, but these stars (Perry Miller forcemeat among them) had only...
...Concorde of the rails, was launched last week with appropriate folderol and impressive precision. With several Cabinet ministers aboard, the TGV eased out of Platform M at 2:27 p.m. with none of the customary lurching of cars, growling of springs or grinding of wheels...
Probably the administrative aid in course preparation provided this year by the Gen Ed office has influenced Faculty attitudes. According to Wilcox, the office now has "start-up money." for slides and "all the other folderol that goes into the creation of a course." The help is welcome--one of the Core's worst problems during its first year stemmed from the difficulty of organizing that "folderol," Emily D. Vermeule, chairman of the Literature and Arts subcommittee says...