Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After receiving the sensational Colson plea, the sharp-tongued Judge Gesell turned to the tense situation created by Ehrlichman's efforts to gain access to his personal White House files for his defense in the Ellsberg burglary case. Gesell had threatened to dismiss the charges against Ehrlichman if any ev idence held by the White House was denied him. On Monday, St. Clair had agreed that Ehrlichman, his attorney William Frates and a stenographer could see the files...
...Cross--whatever the validity of its individual findings--actually goes even further than attacking racism in attacking traditional approaches to American history. For the power of a view like Elkins's--even in its discussion of such topics as what "Sambo" really meant--is too great to dismiss as merely racist. It belongs rather with the old Abolitionist tracts, or even with the modern and equally important tracts of people like C. Wright Mills, moving and evocative in their assertion that capitalism grinds down the humanity of labor. It derives from horror--maybe a horrified surprise--that things have gone...
...also difficult simply to dismiss the SLA's political motives if you consider the seriousness of the SLA's political symbolism and the political framework within which its members saw their mission. DeFreeze took the name Cinque, the name of an African slave who led a slave ship revolt in 1839. The SLA's food plan resembles the tactics of the Argentine Revolutionary Army of the People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments...
After five weeks of trial, the prosecution last week rested its case. Judge Gagliardi denied a pro forma defense motion to dismiss all the charges against Stans and Mitchell, though he did toss out one count of obstructing justice. That left 15 others standing against the two former Cabinet officers...
...time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons. In the industrialized world, the worst inflations generally accompanied wars or revolutions, or struck countries that had tried to live beyond their means. Inflation might be endemic in some nations of Latin America and Asia, but the rich countries could smugly dismiss that as the consequence of chronically weak or corrupt governments...