Word: foreman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, Texas juries are traditionally soft on women murderers, even the one who was convicted in 1955 after she cut up her children, packaged them and stored the pieces in her refrigerator; she got a life sentence. Says Houston Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, who in one year defended 13 women charged with murdering their husbands, got twelve off free and the 13th a five-year suspended sentence: "I like to defend women in murder cases. Juries will turn a woman loose on evidence that they'd convict...
Gradually, through the musings of other mourners, the answer emerges. A gentle drunkard, Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...
Daniel Gow, foreman of maintenance, said that he employed a crew of 12 to 16 men on the snow removal detail. The University is broken up into sections and each man services one section. Operation headquarters are at the Maintenance Building, where Mr. Gow regulates the number and positioning...
Grapes & Garbage. At length he arrived in the valley, welcomed by a brother who brought a suitcase full of grapes. Then came the job hunting: he carried a lunch pail, as if to assure any sharp-eyed foreman that he was ready for work (even though the pail was empty); once, without being hired, he pitched in on a construction crew, hoping that the supervisor would reward his zeal with pay, and got no pay. When he had only 75? left to his name, he latched on to a job as roustabout in the oilfields...
...shotgunning a neighbor to death. The trial came on John Diefenbaker's 24th birthday. The crown prosecutor made a solid case, and the judge issued a strong charge, all but directing the jury to convict. Instead, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Later, Diefenbaker met the foreman and asked how the jury reached its decision. "We talked it over," said the foreman, "and somebody said: 'After all, it's the kid's first case.' Then somebody else said: 'And it's his birthday.' That settled it. We all voted...