Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S June 1 story on the Supreme Court got its figures mixed up. The court, always close to being current, does not have a backlog of 1,836 cases. Actually, as of June 4, [it had] 375, of which about one-half will be disposed of by the time the court adjourns for the summer late this month...
...Supreme Court of the U.S. Washington...
...hacking the daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded a summary court-martial, as was his right-even in such absurd cases as this-under the new (1951) Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit the book may have is far outweighed by the pornographic and smutty passages and words." Summerfield leaned heavily on a 1953 decision (concerning Henry Miller's notorious Tropics) by Judge Albert L. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals: "Dirty word description of the sweet and sublime, especially of the mystery of sex and procreation, is the ultimate of obscenity...
Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and the court trial of Leopold and Loeb...