Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, divorce in Britain was considered not only in poor taste but political suicide. Adultery was the only legal ground, and novelists made almost a standard episode out of the husband's shamefaced trip to the seaside resort of Brighton accompanied by a hired "corespondent." There was the train trip down trailed by two hired detectives who carefully avoided speaking to him; the registration in the cold hotel as "Mr. and Mrs."; the embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid...
...possible dangers of being vaccinated against polio, and the opposite dangers of not being vaccinated, both became legal issues last week. ¶ Palmer Lee Martin, 41, filed a $300,000 damage suit in Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit...
...York newspaper financial writer. After Young won in 1954, he and Phillips fell out (TIME, Dec. 26, 1955) because, according to Young, Phillips failed to get the top Central job he expected. Phillips set about getting revenge. Though a battery of high-priced Central lawyers had never laid a legal glove on Young, Phillips soon had Young hanging on the ropes...
...discharge the bill from committee. Likewise, the President should be able to demonstrate that the bill is no more subversive to states' rights than the laws and court decisions it would enforce. It is rather a practical sanction for an interpretation of our Constitutional rights which is already legal but not in effect...
...Legal counsel for Krupnick entered a plea of "not guilty" for Krupnick, admitting that the wallet had been examined, but denying the charge of larceny...