Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into New Mexico's Sandia Mountains went three forest rangers, a local lawyer, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, there for a quick refresher course in outdoor living. At 10,000 ft., the view from the top was "splendid," but on the way down through Cibola National Forest, bitter cold, high winds and 15-ft. drifts from a sudden snowstorm turned the nightwalk into a nightmare. It took them nine hours instead of the usual five to negotiate six miles on snowshoes, edging their way down the steep switchback trails sideways like crabs. "We all had spills...
...Though modest in size," wrote Buffalo Lawyer Robert B. Fleming, the C.C.C.L. boasts Notre Dame's Law School Dean Joseph O'Meara, Massachusetts' former Attorney General Edward J. McCormack and the Rev. Benjamin L. Masse, associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Though it hardly speaks for the church, "hopefully it speaks for a Catholic point of view...
...addition, students will spend one afternoon a week on a special project which will follow the evolution of a hypothetical legal case. Students will play the roles of the various participants in the case and will follow its development from "the first meeting of lawyer and client through the actual trial," Toepfer said...
...would happen," asked one member of Parliament, "if all the 'irregulars' in the arts should follow Ponti's example!" It is an interesting thought, but in the face of church opposition, few Italian politicians of any party are anxious to fight out the issue. As Rome Lawyer Ercole Graziadei wryly puts it: "The day will come when England will adopt the metric system and China will use the Latin alphabet. But Italy will still forbid divorce...
...evidence was so solid that Armstead's court-appointed lawyer later asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to dismiss the appeal that he had filed for his client. The court complied, but in the process it went out of its way to rap Judge Holtzoff for his "inexplicable" rudeness to Mr. Armstead...