Word: acquits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink paper, the merry diversion of raising her skirt and eyebrows at the jury so that they will acquit her, she quite naturally forgets that she has committed a crime...
...acquit Harry Daugherty and Tom Miller," Mr. Buckner bellowed, "I want no more public office...
...foreign debts, France has never repudiated them. She has already paid important sums for interest. . . . She had decided in future to acquit herself loyally to the extent of her capacity and to limits of the possibilities of transfer...
...Senate then sits as a court presided over by the Vice President. Judge English will be entitled to be represented by attorneys. The "prosecuting attorneys" will be a Board of Managers (five or seven) appointed by the House from its own members. After the trial the Senate can either acquit the judge or (as a maximum penalty) remove him from office. A two-thirds vote is necessary for conviction...
...game was good and clean, with no fouls against either side. And, because the U. S. Army officers and their mounts were in the very best of condition, they were able to acquit themselves properly and to defeat the British Army Polo Team by 8 goals to 4 in the first game of a two-out-of-three series...