Word: lawlessness
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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...
...There is a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws. Last night the police ticketed only the students' cars and other out-of-state cars. I have never heard of such inequitable, such lawless, enforcement of the law. I am a Harvard Law School student, I am a law-abiding American. Louis Altman...
Unfortunately, A House on the Rhine is termite-ridden with bygone clichés ("Don't bring her into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted...
...last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...