Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished Dr. Arthur Henry Douthwaite, British authority on morphia and heroin, seemed utterly free of doubt. "The only conclusion I can come to," he told the court confidently in connection with the dosage given Mrs. Morrell, "is the intention was to terminate her life." But in crossexamination, Defense Counsel Lawrence had a question: In treating a patient already addicted to drugs, would not a doctor have to face two alternatives, the first of which would be to stop the drugs? "Yes," said Dr. Douthwaite...
...With the risk of death?" the defense counsel went...
...holes of their own faulty memories. When, at last, the exhausted prosecution rested, Lawrence called only two witnesses to bolster his own case. The frustrated Attorney General was not even given the chance of cross-examining the defendant. Confident that he had the case won, the defense counsel decided not to put his client on the stand...
Nearly all of Morocco's problems stem from its relations with France, and Morocco's man of balances has the delicate task of steering between the intemperate demands of Arab nationalists and the soberer counsel of those who recognize that France still has a considerable hold on Morocco's purse strings. The dominant Moroccan political force, stoutly behind Mohammed V, is still the Istiqlal, a party whose leadership is largely intellectual, membership mostly trade unionist. But one of Mohammed's problems is how to balance its laicist modernists against the conservative religionists of the medinas...
...international strain had grown great in the month since the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee dusted off and released again some 1951 testimony against Norman. The old testimony, plus paraphrases from a "U.S. Government executive-agency security report" read into the record by Committee Counsel Robert Morris, showed that Norman had been active in a Communist study group at Columbia University in 1938, when he was 28. Later, the record showed, he had held office in the pro-Communist American Friends of the Chinese People; once in 1942 he flashed his diplomatic credentials before an FBI agent to try to rescue...