Word: cased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never expected or hoped or had an idea," the lawyer confessed, "that I would be able to accomplish anything but save this man's life." To this end, Foreman did his best to scotch talk of a conspiracy, fearing that it would hurt his client's case...
...assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray admitted that he was the rifleman who had felled King in Memphis with a single soft-nosed .30-'06-caliber bullet. Yet by allowing him to plead guilty and accept a prearranged sentence of 99 years, the prosecution closed the case without a trial. How ever convenient that settlement may have been to both sides, it immediately raised a whirlwind of public questioning that is unlikely to abate for years...
maximum-security cell in the state penitentiary at Nashville? The circumstances of King's murder carried more than a whiff of a conspiracy. In every such case, there are those whose paranoid perspectives demand sinister schemers be hind every act. But this time many skeptics who habitually scoff at fanciful conspiratorial theories also asked some disturbing questions...
...course, all perfectly legal. Ray's lawyers, headed by Houston's redoubtable Percy Foreman (see THE LAW), were copping a plea. Foreman could muster no rebuttal of the evidence arrayed against his client. To allow Shelby County Attorney General Phil M. Canale Jr. to lay his case before a jury, Foreman reasoned, would, in effect, consign Ray to Tennessee's electric chair (which has not been used since 1960). Only Ray proved stubborn. Until only a few days before his trial, he still believed he would outwit the executioner...
Although China has scarcely recovered from the Great Leap Forward and the more recent ravages of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the rhetoric today-"walking on two legs," "flying leap," "new leap"-is virtually identical with the admonitions of the earlier fiasco. As was the case then, agriculture will have to bear the main burden...