Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Cambridge fire laws limit crowds in the Union Common Room to 400, more than 500 reportedly found their way into the dance, even though tickets were not sold beyond the legal maximum it was learned...
Three weeks ago the legal battle ended; Joanne had won $190,000 in insurance and jewelry. Said a Swiss friend: "She seemed relieved that it was all over. She was a kind girl, with a vivid interest in people and things. All she needed was a man who could really lead her." But Joanne had only Mother, and the lonely isolation (Joanne spoke no French or German) of her Swiss villa had only intensified her unhappiness. Over the months her drug intake increased alarmingly-sleeping pills to stop her "headaches," Dexedrine to wake her up, reducing pills to curb...
...Britain, abortion is legal only if performed to save the life of the mother, though by court interpretation this has been given a broad construction: "If pregnancy is likely to make the woman a physical or mental wreck . . . a doctor [who performs the abortion] is operating for the purpose of preserving the life of the mother."* The medical problem then is to decide whether letting the pregnancy take its course is "likely to make the woman a physical or mental wreck," and doctors find it far from easy to make an accurate forecast on this score. So most general practitioners...
Married. William S. Girard, 21, gawky U.S. Army Specialist Third Class, who set off an international legal battle over G.I. rights overseas by killing a Japanese woman in an Army firing area last January, and Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, pert Japanese divorcee; in the Camp Whittington chapel, 60 miles from Tokyo...
...thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there was no legal cause of action. Then he routed the plaintiff in a straight legal battle. Out of this victory came the first of many sonorous Coke maxims: "[Never] hazard the matter upon a demurrer...