Word: aforethought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write with no malice aforethought, but only with a sincere hope. Each fall, for close to eight years, I have been watching in the crowded vestibules of the Harvard Clubs of New York and Boston, Dillon Field House and Briggs Cage, John Yoviesin graciously shaking bands and flashing shiny white teeth at the alumni and overseers. Mr Yoviesin has been with Harvard these eight years, and even more, and I can only query...
Repudiating his lawyers and demanding that they be fired, Sirhan spoke in quavering tones: "I killed Robert Kennedy willfully, premeditatively, with 20 years of malice aforethought." "Well," snapped Walker, "the evidence has to be proved here in court...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar...
Frost encouraged the display, partly because of a lifelong hunger for public regard, and partly, it is reasonable to suppose, with privacy aforethought. The more the honors are heaped, the less chance of too-personal prying into the man at the heap's bottom. "I have written," he once confided to his friend John Bartlett, "to keep the overcurious out of the secret places of my mind, both in my verse and in my letters...
Ruby, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald "with malice aforethought"-and not, as the defense argued, in a fit of momentary insanity brought on by grief over President Kennedy's death...