Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away: the distinctive "pressure patterns," "wear points" and the "triangle" between the big and second toe are dead giveaways. You can track a man walking on rocks to disguise his trail by looking for stones separated...
Last week, in an unprecedented civil rights suit filed in federal district court in Philadelphia, the Justice Department accused Rizzo of pursuing just that kind of policy. The 28-page complaint charges the mayor, other top officials of the city and its 7,866-officer police department with following "procedures which result in widespread, arbitrary and unreasonable physical abuse or abuse which shocks the conscience." The suit accuses officers of systematically beating handcuffed prisoners, unjustifiably shooting unarmed suspects, "inflicting disproportionate abuse upon black persons and persons of Hispanic origin," and failing to investigate complaints of brutality...
...Justice Department has asked the court to cut off Philadelphia from all federal funds until the police department improves its behavior. While the suit does not document the charges with specific incidents of abuse, the Government lawyers say they are armed with 1,500 allegations of police brutality if the case should go to trial...
...sympathetic judge issued a court order for the removal of the birds in May. But last week Robert, 41, a former Chicago cop, told the judge that when he tried to give them to friends, there were no takers. Dorothea testified that her estranged husband actually had not tried very hard to get rid of the ducks and had been showing up at the house daily to feed them. Added her lawyer: "There are still 35 of them, and that doesn't include the duckling that got stepped on by the family dog and died." Robert's attorney...
...victims' families will be financially compensated for their loss. The multimillion-dollar question is how much. By last week, American Airlines and McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturers of the DC-10, had offered $30 million to the families of 112 victims if they would settle instead of go to court, and more settlement offers are forthcoming. What the airline and the air plane builder are trying to avoid is the kind of protracted legal battle that can cost them much more...