Word: breeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premise of "Trial by Jury" is short and sweet. A jilted lover hauls her slimy sweetheart into court for breech of promise. The prosecution panders to judge and jury, the defendant dances out of a bind, everyone sings about a wedding and the curtain calls begin...
Rosenberg will return to speak next spring with Robert M. Breech, co-producer and in-house legal consultant, and one of the show's actors. David M. Kelly, the former executive producer, may also come to speak...
...tests conducted at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, the GAO discovered that the 94-lb. powder bags used in the Iowa's 16-in. guns could ignite if rammed into the breech at high speed. More significantly, traces of calcium and chlorine found in the cannon did not prove that the blast had been set off by a saboteur's detonator; similar residues were detected in the gun turrets on two other battleships. After confirming the GAO tests, the Navy suspended live cannon fire on all four of its battleships and reopened its investigation of the Iowa tragedy. Physical evidence...