Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals permitted the prosecution wide latitude. Much testimony was based on opinion and hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
...lady's dismissal has been upheld by the Loyalty Review Board and by a Federal Judge, who sustained the dismissal on the ground that the FBI report contained "hearsay evidence", which he defended as admissible in French courts...
...humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original nut who tilted at windmills, and Miguel de Cervantes as a long-winded sort of Thorne Smith of the Renaissance...
...into evidence. For one thing, innocent people were involved. To be sure, the FBI could (and did) explain that the reports-attributed to confidential informants identified only as ND-402, ND-305 and T-7-were unprocessed, unevaluated raw material. They were also, undeniably, a bewildering clutch of gossip, hearsay and trivia...
...four major San Francisco daily papers were editorially agreed. "When her own government has not seen fit to accuse her," cried Hearst's Examiner, "is it not presumptuous-and intolerant to the last degree-for persons in far-off San Francisco ... to keep pressing charges ... on nonlegalistic, hearsay evidence...