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Word: courtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raising schemes. All told, $10,500 has been collected so far for the legal fees involved in seeking an injunction to block exploratory drilling or digging by APCO−at least until some thorough environmental studies have been made. The case is scheduled for trial in the Abingdon Circuit Court at the end of this month, but the town is beginning to realize that whatever the decision, later appeals may cost them an unimaginable $100,000. That is one reason why they have swallowed their distrust of outsiders and outside help enough to encourage the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Taking On a Dam Site | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Kleinfelder moved the cagers into a full-court person-to-person press with 4:25 remaining, but Yale coolly ran out the clock for its tenth win against nine losses...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Bulldogs Thwart Women In Hoop Rematch, 69-60 | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...quintet, sparked by Fleming's outside jumpers and accurate free throw shooting, climber to within one at 60-59 with 1:25 still to show on the clock. The Bruins attempted to run the clock out, playing keep-away from the Crimson by dribbling in circles all over the court...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Fleming Cans Shot at Buzzer To Win Thriller Over Brown | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

Danchy offers no excuses. "Everything you try to do in Cambridge winds up in court," he says...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Danehy: It's Happened Before | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...American justice should work this way." When Gasch called the jurors together, he quickly learned of Cash's so-called confidential information. Questioned by the judge, Cash simply shrugged and said it had been a "joke." Back went the jury, with instructions to consider only evidence presented in court. Again it deadlocked, and the judge, "with the utmost reluctance," declared a mistrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Twelfth Man Hangs a Jury | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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