Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathered," said the presiding judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, "to try crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." With this mildly prejudicial statement, the Nürnberg trial opened. The four judges and their four alternates on the bench of the international tribunal sat reassuringly close to their respective national flags...
...Walter Isaacson Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Geoffrey Leavenworth/Galveston
There is a priggish voice inside most of us that complains, on hearing about someone like Geoffrey Tabin, "Where would we be if everyone jumped off bridges on long rubber bungee cords?" Bobbing boozily up and down, yoing, yoing, yoing, that is where we would be. Can't have that; no one ever got any aluminum siding sold or orthodontia bills paid while dangling from a bungee cord. And Tabin, a Harvard medical student, admits that an alcohol-fueled, top-hat-and-tails leap off of Colorado's 1,053-ft.-high Royal Gorge bridge in 1980 required...
...meeting last February. Reformers within the tradition-bound A.B.A. had to take half-a-loaf satisfaction from a compromise last week that would allow attorneys to withdraw if their clients are using them in unlawful schemes; they may also announce their resignation from the case. Said Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who helped draft the code: "For practical purposes, that's a signal that something is seriously wrong...
...Miyake, also around this period, who was making the greatest strides forward. Now 45, Miyake had served apprenticeships with Givenchy and Laroche in Paris and with Geoffrey Beene in New York. He had watched students storm through the streets of Paris in 1968 and seen their American contemporaries staging what Miyake calls "the jeans revolution." "I was always thinking," he says, "of how I could be original, and changing the length of dresses was not enough. I respect European tradition, but the Europeans do it better...