Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Esprit de Corps. In Brentwood, England, a British army officer, testifying on behalf of two of his men charged with car theft, conceded that they were inclined to be lawless, slovenly, irresponsible and lazy, but assured the court that they had "good army character...
Blood, vengeance and silence is the ancient law of the lawless Mafia through out Sicily and southern Italy. One day last week, a witness in court broke the Mafia's law. For the benefit of seven solemn judges sitting in an old stone courthouse overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, an ignorant peasant of Calabria and a former member of the organization told all that he knew. "I know they have sworn to kill me," he cried, "but I don't care. Justice will punish me for what I have done, and justice will punish them as well...
...which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective of his position or culture, from lawless attacks upon his person or property...
Countermanding Admiral Hubbard's decision last week, Secretary Wilson quickly received support from U.S. veterans' groups, criticism from the Japanese for his "lawless, wayward attitude." At week's end Girard was still in U.S. hands, and the "Somagahara incident" was becoming a rallying point for a swelling anti-American movement in Japan...
...reply to a letter from Louis Altman 2L, which accused the police of ticketing "only students' cars and other out-of-state cars," and decried "such inequitable, such lawless, enforcement of the law," Ready claimed that Altman had been misled by the Cambridge ticketing system...