Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fierce but loses much of its bite toward the end when Director Morassi begins to moralize, using cinematic italics merely to emphasize that a poor honest slob is better off than a well-fixed heel. By the time Giulio has learned how to succeed, he is jobless, friendless, wifeless and miserably rich. It is left to Gassman to give the film lightness and laceration. He is the compleat climber, abristle with tight-smiling assurance and an air of faintly desperate camaraderie that makes Il Successo's trumped-up sociology seem like the whole truth...
...years in the Senate and two in the House, Florida's Representative Claude Pepper, 64, wandered Capitol Hill, not precisely friendless but somehow incompleat. Then, this January, Texas Democrat Jake Pickle, 41, took his seat in the House. Before anyone could say rubber baby-buggy bumpers, the two sponsored H.R. 2465, modifying a portion of the social security laws. It will be known to one and all, naturally, as the Pickle-Pepper bill. Purpose? Whereas, would winsome widows winning their way with welfare wealth wed wooers on social security themselves, why wish widows and wooers to lose whatever combined...
...rejecting jurors who oppose execution, says University of Texas Law Professor Walter E. Oberer, prosecutors get jurors "who not only condone capital punishment, but believe in it." Abolitionists also argue that execution is performed capriciously -on only one out of 100 convicted murderers, and then usually on the poor, friendless and uneducated. Some 54% of the 3,885 Americans executed since 1930 have been Negroes, and in the 1950s, for example, Ohio executed 51% of whites and 78% of Negroes found guilty of capital offenses...
Classic Predisposition. Modern merchant seamen are a long voyage away from the "poor and friendless" creatures that the Supreme Court called their forebears in 1823. Strong laws and strong unions give them some remarkable privileges. Admiralty cases are heard in federal courts, and by federal statute seamen's wages cannot be attached except by wives and minor children. Seamen, on the other hand, may sue not only a shipowner but his ship itself. And wherever the ship flees other countries will honor a decree against...
...miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...