Word: hearsay
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Arrest and accusation were sanctioned on legal grounds that today seem shockingly un-British. Hearsay and secret denunciation were considered sufficient cause for arrest and even for condemnation. In 1519 a woman...
...flexible by allowing a single opportunity for dissatisfied students to switch Houses, perhaps at the end of their sophomore year. If the Houses are indeed capable of satisfying most of their residents, then there will be very few transfers. Rather than the old system's rigid choices based on hearsay, the new system would then provide a flexible safety valve based on experience...
...performances keep The Group going strong. As the bride Kay, who ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen...
Then, last year, the rumor surfaced again: this time it was President Johnson who was planning to nominate Morrissey. The Globe carefully tracked the hearsay, finally confirmed it in March through a tip from inside Teddy Kennedy's office. Swinging back to its crusade, the Globe was first to announce that Morrissey was being pushed by Teddy, first to announce that the FBI was running a check on him. Editor Winship ordered a concerted effort to uncover every pertinent piece of information available on Morrissey. "This is not a personal vendetta," he explained. "We just think Morrissey...
...Liberty. After a jury ordered Holm back into the hospital last year, his young court-appointed Sheridan lawyer, James E. Birchby, appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court on the grounds that the jury had been given hearsay evidence about Holm's mental condition. The law permitting this, he argued, denied the due process guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as well as the Wyoming constitution. Last month the court agreed and set Holm free. "It still remains the fundamental law of the land," said the court, "that a person cannot be deprived of his liberty-whether by involuntary hospitalization...