Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world saw more clearly last week when Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Britain's Attorney General, opened the case for the British prosecution. Sir Hartley is one of Britain's most brilliant jurists. His day-long speech was an impressive, tightly logical, exhaustive dissertation. Yet rarely did it match Jackson's bold attempt to find law in ultimate source-the principles of men- rather than in statute, treaty, precedent...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
Notice for Voters. The provincial treasury sent along $6,000 for a public hall and playgrounds. The Liberals promised to match this with $13,000 if they won-$100 if they lost. Premier Duplessis sent in batches of rural electrical equipment, followed by bulldozers, trucks and asphalt to pave Beauce County roads...
...fast as they could be processed, five unbreakable vinylite albums ($6 and $7 each) of Lomax-collected blues, "hollers," Appalachian ballads and sacred songs. As in the first six albums, released by the Library in February 1943, the voices had a native vitality that few nightclub singers could match, though some of the records had the noisy roughness of performances made far from recording studios...
...home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with it during a tennis match...