Word: hearsay
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Allie knew only by hearsay of the men-folks' downtown gambling and gun toting, because the men always kept their women out of sight; to her, the legendary Tombstone years were primarily a time of waiting and worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie...
Spiegel's findings, praised by West German Historian Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire...
...court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares favorably with any in the world...
...testimony broadcast on the Iraq radio and TV last week, Aref emerged as a conceited, emotional type, whom Nasser himself reportedly characterized as "a child." Nevertheless, there was no proof that he plotted against the state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July...
...Notices. Most of the 350 foreign newsmen, brought to Cuba by Castro for the show, filed shocked reports. They were unaccustomed to the normal standards of Cuban jurisprudence, which permits trials by a panel of judges instead of a jury, admission of hearsay evidence. But they indignantly faulted the trials for the open prejudice of the judges, the popcorn-munching atmosphere, the haste, the catering to the mob's thirst for blood. Cracked one reporter: "Where do the lions come in?" Castro's bad press notices mounted, from Buenos Aires, Rio, Lima, Bogota, Mexico City. "The laurels have...