Word: joblessly
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...fierce but loses much of its bite toward the end when Director Morassi begins to moralize, using cinematic italics merely to emphasize that a poor honest slob is better off than a well-fixed heel. By the time Giulio has learned how to succeed, he is jobless, friendless, wifeless and miserably rich. It is left to Gassman to give the film lightness and laceration. He is the compleat climber, abristle with tight-smiling assurance and an air of faintly desperate camaraderie that makes Il Successo's trumped-up sociology seem like the whole truth...
...Belts v. Brady (1942) said that "shocking" circumstances would require court-appointed lawyers for indigents in noncapital cases. But the court ruled that Smith Betts, a jobless Maryland farm hand, did not meet the test and upheld his eight-year rap for robbery...
...from dyeing and shoemaking plants to Caravelle jetliners to chemical, electrical and arms factories. Despite outside help, a sharp economic decline over the past eight months has cost 100,000 Casablancans their jobs, bringing the city's total unemployment up to 400,000. That brought the total of jobless Moroccans to nearly 3,000,000 -roughly a quarter of the population...
...relation between Mississippi's oppressive social system and its economic ills, which make it the poorest state in the country. He does not treat, for example, the problems of the increasing mechanization of agriculture in an area with no cities to offer employment to the growing mass of jobless sharecroppers, most of whom are Negroes...
...property rights by striking down state economic regulation. On the other, it backed away from using the same clause to bring state criminal-law procedures up to Bill of Rights standards. In the 1942 case of Belts v. Brady, for example, the Court upheld the robbery conviction of a jobless Maryland farm hand who had been too poor to hire a lawyer. The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel applies only in federal courts, said the Court, ruling that states need furnish indigents with lawyers only in "shocking" circumstances...