Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wars put her in the factory; and her pay check led, inevitably, to the bar. (The pornographic murals have been replaced by flowered wall-paper.) Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts and graduate schools. She wrote advice to the love-lorn. Those twin sisters of feminine freedom--Adultery and Alimony--turned suburbia into Sodom and rendered Scollay Square passe...
...divide, as it had done at Suez, between those who puffed out their chests in pride and those who lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
...Roman Catholic Church. But many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right to withhold confessional information because confession is for the purpose of absolution-a judicial...
...practice, British judges have usually denied priests any legal right of refusal. But U.S. law has slowly become more lenient. Trickiest legal quibble: whether the confessional is an essential part of a church's system. Those who seek a pastor's advice on their own volition in nonconfessional churches may find their confidences are not protected by state...
...apply for insurance covering the full value of the investment. Policies bear a relatively modest annual premium of one-half of 1%. In the event of a claim, the U.S. Government takes upon itself to save or recover the investment, gives full restitution to the U.S. firm before undertaking legal and diplomatic action to collect. Premiums paid by protected firms go into the U.S. Treasury to pay claims, in case of necessity would be augmented by funds from other Treasury assets...