Word: forewoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment on whether he had lied in denying that he had given secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent in 1938. Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second." Showing almost no emotion, Hiss and his wife slowly walked out of the room, surrounded by a pack of lawyers and spectators...
...after the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out their convictions because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence affecting the reliability of its two prime witnesses (TIME, March 29). Last week the second trial ended, and Carter, 39, and Artis, 30, sat stoically with their hands folded as the forewoman of the jury rose to read the verdict: "Guilty...
...Judgment. The trial of John Hill (part Mohawk Indian) and Charley Joe Pernasilice (part Catawba) for murder and attempted murder was about to end, concluding a chapter of the American tragedy called Attica. But the end was slow in coming. It took three days of lengthy deliberations before Jury Forewoman Rosa Moore, one of two blacks on the panel, finally announced the verdict on Saturday night. Hill was found guilty of murder. Pernasilice was found guilty of second degree attempted assault. The men's lawyers promised to appeal...
...sartorial pattern for her colleagues. She displays a varied and stylish wardrobe, and her example has apparently encouraged the others to spruce up. Gould is a leader in other respects as well. She has riveted her attention on the complex testimony, and jury watchers predict her election as forewoman...
Dora Smith, the first black forewoman at Detroit's Budd Co., a supplier of automotive parts, acknowledges her unabashed, triumphant materialism. When she bought her 1974 Ford Gran Torino, she says, "I used to go out at night just to make sure it was still there. Then when I'd get up the next day, I'd say 'Good morning, car.'" D. Parke Gibson, a New York City marketing analyst who advises corporations on how to tap the $46 billion-a-year black market, says that buying sprees by blacks may be something...