Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Improvising. For an 8,000-word document as cunningly loaded with distortions of the past and with booby traps for the future, the notes that Moscow had sent gave off an air of improvisation. Only the day before, Secretary Dulles -no mean lawyer-had suggested, with the hint of a smile, that the note might have been so long delayed because Soviet lawyers had to correct Khrushchev's initial impetuosity...
...authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other neuroses, that they all but leave out the crime. One example of a book with too many extras: the bestselling Anatomy of a Murder ("We could do without the tippling lawyer's aide, the sentimental love affair at the end, and perhaps some of the medical evidence...
Bryan was a former congressman, Wilson a governor, Cox a governor, John W. Davis a corporation lawyer, Smith and Roosevelt, both New York governors, Truman a Vice-President (Lots of vice-presidential material comes from the Senate.), and Stevenson a governor. The Republican nominees are similarly heavily pro-gubernatorial, from McKinley through Dewey...
...Kentucky. Of course, precedent doesn't mean a thing, and Adlai, even without any favorite-son backing from Illinois, could be the choice of a convention unable to decide among a host of mediocrities. The 1924 convention, deadlocked between Smith and McAdoo, turned to Davis, also a corporation lawyer, who had nothing resembling the national fame Stevenson has amassed in two losing tries at the White House...
With the state's "massive resistance" laws ready to topple in the courts and with powerful Virginia editors looking for a way out (TIME, Nov. 24), able Lawyer Almond came close to admitting that Virginia might have to come up with a local-option school plan. Only two days before his news conference, Almond and Virginia had got a vaccination against the infection they feared. In Norfolk (pop. 314,600), where 10,000 pupils are still locked out, voters decided 12,333 to 8,781 against petitioning Almond to return their schools to local control, thus let them open...