Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset, the committee had granted Dodd the right to call his own witnesses and cross-examine hostile witnesses. His chief lawyer, John Sonnet, sought to justify the trip to Germany as a legitimate mission on behalf of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. David Martin, who had accompanied the Senator to Germany, testified that Dodd had in fact interviewed a defected Soviet agent. Martin acknowledged, however, that barely seven hours of the six-day trip were spent on the defector's case and that Dodd discussed Klein with Konrad Adenauer...
...introduced progressive programs but has earned a reputation as bumbling and indecisive. When polls showed last year that he could not win in 1966, D.F.L. leaders asked the Governor to step down as a candidate for reelection. On his refusal, party chieftains decided to turn to Keith, a lawyer and ex-athlete who grooms his hair Kennedy-style...
Ever since Escobedo, many a confessed and convicted criminal had seen the possibility of retroactivity as a hope of getting his case back into court. And now, with Miranda to remind police that just about any question a suspect answers without a lawyer's advice is improper unless he waives his rights, that hope seemed bright indeed. Writing for a 7 to 2 majority, Warren relocked the prison doors. To reopen past cases, he said, "would seriously disrupt the administration of our criminal laws. It would require the retrial and release of numerous prisoners found guilty by trustworthy evidence...
...classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda, walks out on his daughter's wedding, and Lawyer Kevin McCarthy leaves a client's neck in the noose...
...surrender. "The man must belong to me completely," she says, and all intimations of psychological complexity stop right there. Having long since abandoned a famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another" as the sine qua non of sensual pleasure is not for him. Life ends, for Gertrud, in white-haired seclusion, though she still declares her credo to be love above...