Word: judgmental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world rife with the rhetoric of detente, this admonition might sound like the words of a cold warrior, but it was certainly not that. Rather it was the final judgment of a coolly professional career diplomat who, after 42 years of specializing in Soviet affairs, remained optimistic about improving U.S.-Russian relations in such limited areas as trade and cultural and scientific exchange but exceedingly wary of the Soviet system. In his memoirs, published less than a year before his death last week at age 69, Charles Bohlen counseled that "illusion has no place in any negotiations with the Soviet...
Dorothy registers every lapse of taste and grace, but she is consumed by greed, and her judgment of her mother's loving servants is unfailingly obtuse. When the solicitor consults her about the dis position of the jewels - after the grande dame has at last died peacefully on her own commode - Dorothy asks, "Are there any jewels left, after the nurses have taken their pick...
...capricious and supremely autocratic ruler of a business empire worth billions, Howard Hughes has spent almost as much time and trouble fighting legal problems as the germs about which he constantly worries. In 1973, after a twelve-year court fight, he finally upset a $180 million judgment against him for allegedly mismanaging TWA, and he is currently being sued by his former chief lieutenant, Robert Maheu, for $17 million on grounds of libel...
...Pottawattomie County District Court Judge John Brookens, having heard the arguments, decided on a surprise ending of his own: He refused to grant a summary judgment that would have prohibited the power company from taking the farmers' land through eminent domain proceedings...
...poll also revealed that 89 per cent support impeaching the president. Of these, 90 per cent said that conviction should follow impeachment proceedings. Only 12 per cent of the Law School students refused to pass judgment on the president...