Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courage enough, despite inevitable suspicions of bribery, to dismiss the indictment or to reverse the conviction that a jury trial will probably produce. Just as with Al Capone in the Thirties, the Federal law enforcement authorities have not been able to prove a case against the defendants for major crimes and have had to resort to irrelevant charges like doubtful income tax evasion or "conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...string section. The strings found a deserved complement in the virtuosic wind group which pulled off Stravinsky's exacting Symphonies for Wind Instruments with breath-taking precision and intonation. Nor did Mr. Senturia let technical concerns overshadow the equally crucial matters of vitality and awareness which should be the major strengths of any good amateur ensemble...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1--An underrated Crimson football team, led by the brilliant play of veteran Chet Boulris, pulled one of the season's major upsets this afternoon as it toppled Penn from the nation's undefeated ranks, 12 to 0, outgaining the Quakers 260 to 160 in total yardage and 16 to 11 in first downs...
...When Major General John Medaris, head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala., last week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement...
...Chicago to attend a Governors' Conference committee meeting on a serious subject that he takes seriously: the urgent need for civil defense fallout shelters (TIME, July 20). But a glance at his two-day schedule was ample evidence that he was also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential ambitions. Said a withdrawn...