Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force the registration of Communists, the SACB never really controlled subversives, much less their activities. Its chief function vanished altogether when the Supreme Court ruled that compulsory registration of Communists was unconstitutional. The board might have been forgotten entirely if the press last summer had not looked into President Johnson's appointment of a board member whose main qualification seemed to have been his recent marriage to a former White House secretary who was well liked by the President...
Except in Florida and Southern California, drive-in churches generally function only in the summer or for Easter sunrise services. They particularly attract vacationers who, as one minister puts it, suffer from "normal protestantitis"-the feeling that summer is the time to take a holiday from church. Many worshipers are attracted by the lack of usual Sunday formality, show up in everything from bathing suits to pajamas. The church lots are invariably packed with cars carrying rooftop boats, surfboards, golf clubs and picnic hampers. But the convenience of drive-in services also attracts the sick and disabled, parents with small...
...Inner Belt are now outmoded. In 1948, it was supposed that Boston would grow--both in population and employment--at a faster rate than it actually has. The Massachusetts Turnpike extension into Boston has already taken some of the pressure off downtown Boston's crowded Central Artery--a function which is the Inner Belt's raison d'etre...
...spokesman explained last night that the letter's main function was to get PBH volunteers thinking about the anti-war referendum. Any volunteers who decide to campaign may be expected to do this in addition to their regular duties, he said...
...lucky mutt was of signal significance. Within her chest was another dog's heart, transplanted by Dr. Richard R. Lower of the Medical College of Virginia more than a year before. She and another pup had not only survived with substitute hearts, but they were able to function normally-even to the extent, in the brown and white dog's case, of bearing a litter of puppies...