Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Farmer and Marshall got interested in the Rosenbergs through correspondence with a professional soapbox orator and left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles. Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument. Its gist: the Rosenbergs were wrongly sentenced under the Espionage Act of 1917, which allows the judge to fix the death penalty; they should have been sentenced under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which provides the death penalty for atomic espionage only when a jury so recommends...
...Monsieur Paul, Tom puts down the story of his mistakes in a diary addressed to his son. Whether France's average Toms would recognize themselves in M. Schumacher's unprepossessing self-portrait is doubtful. The gist of his testimony seems to be that he would have avoided a lot of trouble if he had settled down to an honest job and an honest early marriage...
National League lead, winning ten of their first twelve games, eight of them in a row. Gist of the happy Phillies' clubhouse chatter: "We'll have the pennant sewed up by Labor...
...gist of the U.S.-German discussions was summed up in a communique: "a full and frank exchange ... in a spirit of friendship and cooperation [revealing] a far-reaching identity of views and objectives." Items of agreement: ¶ No relaxation of common vigilance against Russia. If Moscow really wants peace, it should permit genuine free elections in Soviet Germany, release its hundreds of thousands of German war prisoners and civilian deportees. ¶ Ultimate reunification of Germany, "by peaceful means and on a free and democratic basis...
...Gist of the new rule: a player, once taken out of the game, may not return until the next period, except in the second and fourth quarters, when he may return for the final four minutes of play...