Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, many lawyers argue that such controls do not get at the key flaw in the system, which is unchallenged chatter that hits print between arrest and trial. Elaborate trial rules permit jurors to hear admissible evidence subject to searching crossexamination; the whole system is subverted when the press fills jurors' heads with inadmissible evidence-prior criminal records, rumored confessions, "flunked" lie-detector tests, a police chief's claim that "we got the right man." Some prosecutors announce indictments with unforgettable declarations of guilt. Defense lawyers then counter with vivid rebuttals-all of which may be read...
...consistent tone can be imparted to a play that juxtaposes the somber drum roll of the Kennedy funeral cortege with such inane Shakespearean mutations as "Oh whine and pout/ That ever I was born to bury doubt." But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters. She has written an apolitical play in which all choices seem silly. The Ken O'Duncs are presented as chilly, ruthless opportunists; MacBird is a mixture of corn...
Murphy's game effort in the dive pointed up one serious flaw in the Harvard swimming program. At all the other major Eastern powers, the divers practice on relatively new Duraflex boards. The IAB board is 10-years...
...charge of subtle racism is an irrelevant one; a much more serious charge--one that reflects not on Moynihan's motives but upon his competence--is that the Moynihan Report proposed a program that was simply unworkable within the framework of national and local power relations. This flaw, I think, not only from Moynihan's basic orientation, but from his misunderstanding--until recently--of the nature of the political and administrative process in this country...
...Federal Flaw. In such cases, federal prosecutors often ask state officials to start civil commitment proceedings against an acquitted federal defendant...