Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital is in ruins. Our national life is in pieces. Dominicans of all sectors have come forth in order that we can form a government of national reconstruction. We do not desire anything other than the salvation of our fatherland." Imbert's junta was composed of a lawyer, an engineer, an air force colonel from Wessin y Wessin's government; in a gesture to the rebels who had started the revolt in the name of deposed President Juan Bosch, he included a pro-Bosch editor...
...that youngsters "expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best," and so the American Mothers Committee, Inc., picked Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 76, from outstanding mothers across the country, proclaimed her 1965's "Mother...
Despite the reversal, Sheppard may stay out of prison for some time. His lawyer has asked for a rehearing, may seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court, and hopes ultimately for an entirely new trial. Many another judge will doubtless get a crack at Sheppard's puzzling record...
...late to smother the mob's pent-up passions. Insistently, the rebel radio exhorted: "Kill a policeman! Kill a policeman!" "Come into the street and bring three or four others with you!" The frightened army men who had forced Reid's resignation turned the government over to Lawyer Rafael Molina Ureña, a Bosch supporter, until Bosch himself could return. In San Juan, Bosch announced that he would be in Santo Domingo "just as soon as the air force sends a plane...
...word of an American's arrest is immediately passed to U.S. officials. The accused's right to counsel begins at the pretrial magistrate's hearing. In civil as well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford a lawyer. Most British courts, though not all, offer the same aid to accused Americans. Convicted aliens are commonly sentenced to buy a one-way ticket home. So easy is Britain on errant Americans that arrested Britons have been known to claim U.S. citizenship...