Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Larry looks like a character out of Richard Jessup's Cincinnati Kid, which is to a poker player what St. Augustine's Confessions is to a Catholic. Larry has the pallid face, the light-colored eyes ringed with yellow--signs that mark the man who spends his days sleeping off the exhaustion of a night at the table...
...gunning for a punchless Brown today, and the Bruins should take to the hills. The Elis will be without star quarterback Brian Dowling, who suffered a torn knee ligament last week, but that doesn't matter: Brown last week lost both of its top quarterbacks, Jack McMahon and Wynn Jessup...
...Justice Earl Warren. There were no dissenters. Obliquely and directly, a wide variety of panel speakers agreed that the basis of any orderly world community is the rule of law-law viewed not negatively as a social defense against evil but as a positive force for social order. Philip Jessup of the International Court of Justice argued that law today is not only a series of prohibitions but "the mechanism by which society has created devices for people to work together for common ends." Internationally, this kind of positive law includes the great treaties as well as lesser but equally...
...Philip Caryl Jessup, Judge, International Court of Justice...
...Jessup's real achievements is the sense he gives of the fraternity among gambling men: they may be hustlers when they are playing with amateurs, but they are knights to one another...