Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to make bail or hire a good lawyer, the Negro awaits his state court trial in a segregated jail; even the drunk tanks are generally separate, and the turnkeys are uniformly white. When he finally does go to trial, the Negro enters the courthouse that to him has become the symbol of all his afflictions. There may be a Negro janitor about the premises, but everyone else is white, from judges and prosecutors down to clerks. Though many Southern judges dispense justice with admirable evenhandedness, the judge the Negro faces may well be ruled by his own prejudice...
...took a lawyer to point out the unexpected advantages of her Greek citizenship. What got the lawyer into the act was the fact that Maria wanted to divorce her husband, Italian Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, whom she married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Verona in 1949. The trouble was, Meneghini kept saying "No." Since Italy countenances no divorces at all, nothing could be done about the situation in the country where they were married. To make matters worse, a husband's cooperation is usually required, even in such mills as Mexico and Nevada, if the divorce...
...just awful: 17 hits, ten runs in 14 innings. Then there is Tony Oliva, who has won the batting championship every year he has been in the American League. The first year, Griffith paid him $7,500. The second year, Oliva got $9,500. This year he hired a lawyer and held out. Two weeks later, he signed...
...Hemingway hero should have. Papa grew increasingly gaunt and anxious in his last months. He got upset over trifles, worried that an airline would not accept him with excess baggage, despaired because he was sure he could not pick up his guns at Abercrombie & Fitch after his lawyer had neglected to pay a bill. Gradually, he began to believe that he was being followed by Government agents and that his family and friends had somehow betrayed...
...changes all tunes. When Guy Chapman, a fledgling lawyer from the best of schools-Westminster and Oxford-marched off to war in 1915, his ragged battalion of London clerks, shopkeepers and dockers kept more or less in step to the bombastic brass of The British Grenadiers. Three years later, when, statistically, they were all dead, they marched better, but sang less nobly. Yet Chapman's battalion had earned the right to its cynical gallantry. In an introductory note to the reissue of his 1933 classic documentary of World War I, Chapman marks the score: "At the Armistice in November...