Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over his objections, his court-appointed lawyers filed an appeal. Gilmore tried to dismiss them. He sent the Utah Supreme Court a handwritten note asking to be allowed to "die with dignity." Said he: "Don't the people of Utah have the courage of their conviction?" When the justices nonetheless voted to stay his execution, Gilmore last week appeared before them in shackles and said calmly: "I was given a fair trial. The sentence was proper. I'm willing to accept it like a man and wish it to be carried out without delay." A few hours later...
...Bread, Hashish and Moonlight" Qabbani attacks the fatalistic attitude reflected in the other poems. He dispels as an illusion the belief the fulfillment in death can substitute for fulfillment in life. As a result he is forced to dismiss his countrymen bitterly and absolutely...
Laborites and even some Tories dismiss the coalition talk as partisan. "Old men's twaddle," snorted George Gale, the crusty columnist for the Daily Express. "What is being offered in all this talk of 'government of national unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead...
...tall, boyish, slim-featured and soft-spoken Fallows opens his explanation evoking the moral challenge that the Vietnam War presented students in the late '60s. Today, he says, "there is no single overriding concern which makes you dismiss all marginal concerns and trimming." But in the late '60s the war was such an overriding force. It was an "epochal test, and you didn't know how it was all going to finally turn out and whether for the next 39 or 40 years people would point back and say, 'Those people did not speak up when the test of time...
Earlier this week, Judge Herbert F. Travers Jr. of the Middlesex Superior Court denied a motion to dismiss charges or suppress evidence in the case because of the lawyers' contention...