Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spater calls those decisions "a grave abuse of judicial power." According to other air lawyers, however, the Supreme Court may eventually embrace the new doctrine that appears to treat noise alone as damaging, even without a physical invasion...
...reminded the steelworkers that their hourly wages ($4.40, including benefits) were already one-third higher than the average for industrial workers; they hardly needed a massive, inflationary raise. Then, in stern-fatherly fashion, he urged both sides to weigh the grave damage a strike could wreak on the U.S. economy, on the war in Viet Nam. To underline his point, he noted that the record 116-day steel strike in 1959 had plunged the nation straight into a nine-month recession...
...search for his brother, Army Lieut. Daniel Dawson, was over after nine months-four of them as a Viet Cong prisoner. "They told me he was dead and gave me a flight vest he wore, and then they told me to go," said Don sadly. He never saw the grave, but the Viet Cong claimed they would tend it until Dawson could come back after the war to recover the body of his brother, shot down last Nov. 6 in a light reconnaissance plane. For Don, it was time to go home to his wife and four children in Costa...
...Guild as an upstart. The I.T.U. is a world unto itself, a "monastic and monolithic world," in the words of one top labor arbitrator. All its members work at essentially the same job, tend to share the same interests, see each other socially. The union provides almost cradle-to-grave security: a training center, a retirement home, generous pensions, burial expenses...
...dons her gown and wig and joins four other new appointees as the first woman among the High Court's 62 justices. But the problem is: what should lawyers call her? "My Lord" seemed confusing at best, while traditionalists cringed at the sound of "Mrs. Justice." After grave deliberation, the Lord Chancellor's office has duly issued its decision: henceforth, Mrs. Lane will be Mr. Justice Lane, and may indeed be called "My Lord." "There simply isn't any precedent for calling a woman anything different," argued a harassed official. "We've taken what seems...