Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
...four and one) had been sent back to Brooklyn to stay with Yvette's mother. At Yvette's side stood her father, plain-spoken Alfred Noack, who had given up his carpenter's job to help defend his daughter. From spectators' benches in the packed courtroom, Yvette's neighbors, members like herself of the tight, bored community of Army wives self-marooned in a strange land, looked on. Some brought their knitting. Others came with detective magazines. The trial was a relief from endless bridge lunches and snack-bar gossip fests. Only now & then...
...look the type that would bump off her husband, does she?" asked one of the wives leaving court to cook supper, as Carpenter Noack carried his daughter from the courtroom. "I don't know about that," answered another. "She looks screwy...
Last week, the Musni family and Father Coronel, friends no longer, were glaring at each other across a Manila courtroom while a judge weighed the legal answer to a delicate question that had disturbed the whole Philippine Republic: Was Father Coronel legally married to Gloria Musni...
...Success. In Los Angeles, Salesman Harold Martin was acquitted of stealing a high-priced great Dane and a collie after he proved in a close courtroom that the dogs forced their way into his car and refused to leave because his clothes smelled of his product-dog food...