Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chamber was almost deserted when Lawyer Dodd. veteran of two terms (1953-57) in the House, rose at his back-row desk, laid his speech on a lectern, and speaking in a clear, strong voice began working his way through his careful logic...
...Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU HAVE CUT THE CABLE FOUR TIMES: STOP FISHING HERE AND GO SOUTH. The trawler moved a few miles. Burke's Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, then made a precedent-setting proposal: Send a Navy party aboard the Russian ship. Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist...
Under the doctrine of judicial review, the U.S. Supreme Court has the last word on basic U.S. law-and no good lawyer would have it otherwise. Likewise, good U.S. lawyers believe that they have a professional responsibility to judge the kind of law laid down by the court, and to make recommendations for statutes that would improve the legal fabric of the U.S. Last week the American Bar Association's 246-member House of Delegates reviewed the procession of Supreme Court decisions in internal security cases, sharply recommended that Congress plug the serious loopholes opened up by court...
...Kalinin Constituency, Khrushchev forcefully reminded the world that he could claw as well as slap backs in raucous good fellowship. Angered by the discovery that Britain's Harold Macmillan had come to Moscow with no intention of repeating Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich, Khrushchev flatly laid down his uncompromising terms on Germany, in such a way as to demonstrate that he was not interested in reasonable accommodations. In doing so, he also inflicted a historic humiliation on Macmillan and paraded his contempt and indifference toward Britain...
...that he stands as a major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy" at Snyder's door. When Newton repeated Snyder's answer ("All legitimate news of the Pentagon is available to the press") to a group of Pentagon reporters, it generated "a long, loud and unanimous hoot of derision." Said Newton: "Not a single...