Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning's hangovers. Then suddenly they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered and took an appointed place. Lord Kilmuir, the Lord High Chancellor, draped amid flowing robes...
...returned to meet together here-returned to rededicate ourselves to the cause of justice at your historic shrine of freedom . . . The keystones of government by law-due process, freedom of speech, jury trial, freedom of the press, fair trial and freedom of worship-have for us all a ringing appeal. And we have a serene confidence that all mankind, when allowed the choice, will claim these invaluable rights. Just yesterday, for example, we observed the Hungarians confirm our faith in the insatiable appetite of all people for freedom-an urge that will brook impossible odds for its satisfaction, proving...
...issue. From opponents came the reply that the Clinton case was no real test, because East Tennessee is traditionally Republican border country, was mostly Yankee in the Civil War, and has relatively few Negroes. In fact, the verdict proved only one thing: when a case is fought on an appeal to racist passion on one side and an appeal to law and order on the other, the citizens of East Tennessee will take law and order-especially if administered by Judge Robert Love Taylor...
...Love Parliament." Although Tory old pros in his party warned that such high-mindedness had no political sex appeal, Diefenbaker plunged ahead. "I love Parliament," he said, and described the occasions when the Liberal government had held it "in contempt." Quoting Howe's "Who's to stop us?" Diefenbaker thundered: "The road of the Liberal government leads to the extinction of parliamentary government in Canada...
...fact the lowest competitive market prices. Throughout the entire period ECA continued to finance at such prices, which perhaps more than anything else indicates ECA's acknowledgment that the prices charged were in fact the lowest competitive market prices." The Justice Department would not say whether it will appeal the case, or even whether it will bring Jersey Standard and Socony to trial. But it may well be that Judge Murphy's strong opinion knocked the bottom out of the barrel...