Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable." Judge Minoru Kamiizumi agreed, set Merten free because the marine "had been drinking whisky for several hours, showed symptoms of pathological intoxication and was in a state...
...campaigns with his wife Janet, once a Chicago Young Communist Leaguer. He denies that he is a Communist, although government officials are convinced he keeps in close touch with the Kremlin. He talks of forming a postelection coalition with a former ally, Forbes Burnham, 36, a mercurial Negro lawyer with Communist leanings of his own, whose splinter wing of the P.P.P. may win up to four seats...
...moderate, pro-government People's Radicals drew 2,128,072 votes. Lawyer Arturo Frondizi's Intransigent Radicals, who had ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...follow up last week's victory-if they can find a candidate capable of uniting the party-by pulling in the Frondizi backers, who were demoralized by his small vote in the Assembly election. The current front runner for the People's Radicals: Ricardo Balbin, the colorless lawyer who was defeated...
...shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There was an occasional virulent clash of words. New York's Senator Irving Ives blew up as a jug-eared Manhattan lawyer buzzed the ear of his gum-chewing client, tough Anthony Topazio. Said Ives: "It's high time he learned to talk...