Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Debate Council: polemics for the off-spring of exasperated mothers who continually moaned at your arguments, "You'll make a great lawyer someday." The council has won numerous tournaments and even national championships, but lack of funds prevents the Harvard team from admitting any but the dedicated few who survive the crushing fall comp...
...have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year, however, and transferred into the Law School. Thrity years later, Lopez is still in and around Cambridge. He moved out to Los Angeles for a while, to practice law in the Chicano community and appear as a television lawyer. But Harvard lured him back. Lopez describes himself as a "writer and lecturer." Last year he offered a seminar at the Institute of Politics on "Chicano Political Development." Next year, Lopez says, he will be teaching a General Education course on the development of Hispanic communities in America. His past...
...bank account, which is a felony in Missouri. She made the check good and the charges were dropped. The sheriff then angrily announced that he would send Missouri a bill for $460, which was the cost of keeping her in jail five days and paying for her court-appointed lawyer. Said he: "This is one of the reasons we have some pretty difficult problems in law enforcement. It's a very shabby way of conducting business." The sheriffs name? Wayne Goodnature...
...same reason, the Kurdish party, unlike some other groups, refused to boycott the constituent assembly election and even nominated three candidates of its own. Says a Kurdish lawyer: "We want to be inside the tent...
...poor Roman baker, Ottaviani, a brilliant canon lawyer, joined the Vatican Secretariat of State...