Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo last week, after 18 months of legal bickering and monotonous reading of documents, the drowsy courtroom in the old War Ministry building came to life. The chief characters of the climactic scenes were Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo and Ryukichi ("The Monster") Tanaka. Neither expected to live long. War Criminal Tojo expected to be hanged by the victors, whose newly written laws he boldly challenged; Tanaka expected to be assassinated by the vanquished, whose old, unwritten laws he had betrayed...
...Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition and spoke his unrepentant mind. Poles considered his behavior sensational...
...Civil Rights Congress, headed by rich, earnest George Marshall (no kin to the Secretary of State). It has been the courtroom defender of avowed Communists...
...thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used in one way in formal writing, in another way in pulpit oratory ... in the courtroom ... in private conversation . . in the ballpark [and] the public forum . . . The students need to learn the appropriate word in the appropriate level of usage...
...those two words, "not guilty" - the first words he had spoken - the spectators in the courtroom started. Few of them had ever seen the man before, but in all of them the sound of his voice touched a nerve of terrible memory...