Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler's only previous political post has been...
...time it took and the methods it used, the commission did an extraordinary job. Its use of trial-lawyer techniques in tandem with a historian's speculative interpretation of facts worked better than either method would have worked alone, even if it did not completely please the backers of either. Although its conclusions are being assailed, they have not yet been successfully contradicted by anyone. Despite all the critics' agonizing hours of research, not one has produced a single significant bit of evidence to show that anyone but Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer, or that...
...diary entry, Lawyer Georgiadis disposed of that by introducing into evidence copies of Ceremony in Lone Tree, a novel by Wright Morris, in which specified sentences proved to be almost word for word the same as the lines in the diary. The novel was part of a selection issued to Peace Corps members in Tanzania for their book lockers, and Kinsey testified that he had formed the habit of jotting down excerpts from books while majoring in literature at college. Dr. Gerald C. Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds...
Ducky Chat. If Kinsey began the trial a lonely stranger, by week's end he knew that his case had been handled by a sharp and knowing criminal lawyer. Georgiadis even produced a surprise witness: Mrs. Charlotte Dennett of Riverside, Conn., the mother of the dead girl. "It's good to see you, Bill," she said, as she embraced the defendant. Mrs. Dennett, ex-wife of the late Raymond Dennett, a former director of the World Peace Foundation, took the stand to give evidence in a quiet voice. While she fought back tears, she identified a letter that...
...Philadelphia lawyer" has long been a layman's synonym for a shrewd or conniving attorney. But, last week, a luckless client whose funds had been embezzled or otherwise misappropriated by his lawyer could rejoice if the lawyer were a Philadelphian: the Philadelphia area now boasts the largest clients' security fund in the nation. Financed from association dues, the fund has reserves of $127,000 and it has paid claims amounting...