Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ozark, Ark., when a lawyer cross-examined a witness with "I hear you drink sometimes," the witness said: "You heard wrong. I drink all the time...
After that, there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African...
...spectacle of Lawyer Castro's ignoring the principle of double jeopardy caused the Havana, Santiago and National Bar Associations to protest. A defense attorney for the airmen, Carlos Peña Justiz, said the reversal could stamp Castro as "a new Napoleon in the Caribbean." Muttered Castro: "Reactionary." As he spoke, firing squads across the island were busy building the week's execution total to 30, the overall accounting...
With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig. Scoffed Nkrumah: "ridiculous headgear," considering Ghana's sweltering climate...
Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...