Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...
...student organization. This organization is the ASSU, the Associated Students of Stanford University. With a budget of $150,000, the elected executive committee of the ASSU does not try to influence publications' editorial policies, it has a controlling had on their finances and supports an unwritten law that the Daily prints no sex or crime stories. Once the Daily editor himself trial, but no mention of it was made on the newspaper's pages...
...bodyguard) to the staid and stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members of his staff shed theirs only when the P.M. is in shirtsleeves. He writes ten to 20 letters a day, receives an average of five visitors, places his own telephone calls, starts the conversations with a crisp: "St. Laurent here...
...spite of her Louisiana upbringing, Mrs. Grant sympathizes with the U.S. Negro's indignation at the unwritten laws which force him, in most communities, to buy only rundown houses in rundown districts. Four years ago, as a broker in a big Los Angeles real-estate firm, she took a call from another broker asking about a new house. Asked Mrs. Grant: "Is your client a Caucasian?" The answer from the caller, a Negro, was cold and angry: "No she's not, and neither...
...last years of his life writing down all that he had learned on his journey. Though he wrote several books (Faith of a Liberal, A Preface to Logic, etc.), he never felt he had quite finished his task. Until his death, he was tortured by the books still unwritten, "haunted by the things . . . left unsaid." Actually, he knew that his books, like his teaching, would probably provide the world with no pat solutions. They could only underline his constant faith in "keeping the windows open on the Beyond . . ." and a sort of decide-as-you-go "liberalism based...