Word: loath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They key question of the play is whether to trust Marcel, the boarder they picked off the street months ago, who suddenly asks for money so that he can recover his cello. He is finally given the money, though Dixon, now cynical, is loath to do it. As the group awaits his return, not knowing whether their trust was justified, the suspense builds...
...least partly belying Belli, many judges are still loath to stack all the odds against manufacturers, and the doctrine of strict liability is unlikely to be applied universally to all products. Even so, it is easily the most spectacular development in modern tort law-the most potent new weapon aimed at making business safeguard consumers...
...Nazi onslaught caught Chagall in Vichy France, preoccupied with his work. He was loath to leave, even when the Emergency Rescue Committee urged him to come to the U.S. Recalls Varian Fry, the committee's agent, "He wanted to know if there were any cows in America. I assured him that we had not only cows but goats too." "And trees and green grass?" he asked. "We have all that," said Fry. "I told him that New York City was only a part of the U.S. and even there was green grass. Chagall was enormously relieved." Fry rescued...
...Supreme Court upheld two would-be Negro applicants and struck down Girard's color bar as a violation of the 14th Amendment guarantee against state-enforced racial discrimination. Loath to meddle with Girard's will, however, the Philadelphia Orphans Court merely substituted private for public trustees. Since the school was no longer a public agency, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal challenging the Orphans Court's action...
...until last month the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce, and since then Chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission, created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. No sooner had Wagner announced his decision not to run again than Roosevelt eagerly announced his availability. But he also declared himself loath to participate in an untidy party primary, and he was obviously waiting to be coaxed into the scramble...