Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election, there was not just one issue; Duncan had other things going for him. A vibrant, crew-cut lawyer, he has put himself over as a colorful, forceful fellow during his two terms in Congress. A former seaman, he still enjoys a pinch of chewing tobacco, proudly wears Duncan tartan ties. He often reminds himself of appointments by jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee...
...shock of her court-appointed lawyer, Louis Renga, who had not yet arrived at her probation hearing, Nancy accepted Judge Kearney's offer of sterilization-only to be dissuaded later by her family, her doctor and a local priest. When newspapers broke the story, more than 300 citizens offered to sign a petition declaring that sterilization is hardly a cure for Nancy's problems. Calling Judge Kearney's offer "cruel and unusual punishment," Lawyer Renga also pointed out that California law specifies "reasonable" conditions for probation toward the end that "rehabilitation will be served...
...relented only to the extent of giving her three months rather than six months in jail. "I'm not trying to be a Nazi," insisted the judge. "It seemed to me that she should not have more children because of her propensity to live an immoral life." Countered Lawyer Renga: "Sure she made a mistake-and he wants to kill her insides...
...average Commission member, Epstein, states, attended about 45 per cent of the meetings, and many of the well-known private lawyers who supposedly assisted the Commission kept up their regular practices and left most of the investigative work to a few less prominent members of the staff, particularly lawyer Arlen Spectre...
...Mills Godwin, a Suffolk lawyer who in 1959 favored closing public schools rather than having them integrated, was elected governor last year by a coalition of Negro, liberal, and Byrd Organization voters...