Word: lenient
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...longtime college servant muses, "Wog's in the Empire were different from wogs outside it and wogs in the Fox Club wasn't wogs at all or they wouldn't be members." There is a TV commentator whose carefully developed public image is that of a "lenient Jeremiah." Perhaps best of all, Sharpe presents a graduate student memorably beset by lust. Too diffident to ask for contraceptives in drugstores (where the clientele is mixed), he seeks them in barbershops (where contraceptives are also sold in Britain). But though he gets repeated "trims," he never gets a Durex...
Byhalia blacks considered the charge overly lenient. Black leaders said they wanted Hanna charged with murder, but Sheriff Johnny Taylor maintained that only manslaughter was justified because no premediatation was involved in the killing...
...takes painful cost-cutting steps, particularly by eliminating some lightly traveled routes to Latin America, Africa and Asia, its creditors may be disposed to reduce the $300 million asset limit below which credit would halt. According to Brinegar, the Administration will ask the creditors to be lenient with...
...information? The column offered none. Questioned afterward, Safire said that he knew of one harassed official, but would not name him. He further speculated that Jake Jacobsen, the lawyer implicated in the milk deal, may have undergone coercion, but he had no supporting facts. By "bribes," Safire meant the lenient treatment given some Watergate suspects - not that plea bargain ing is unique to Watergate. As to the timing of Connally's indictment, Safire seemed unaware of an important point: Jaworski's office had delayed the proceeding a full week so as not to mar the wedding of Connally...
Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst-the first Cabinet alumnus since 1929 to be convicted of a crime -stood solemnly before Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. in Washington. In an unusually lenient deal with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, Kleindienst had been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of having failed to testify fully at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now he was to be sentenced...