Word: moot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overturned, she appealed for a hearing by the full, nine-member bench of the Court of Appeals. In varying language the judges agreed that "there is nothing to rehear." Mrs. Jones had left the hospital, Judge Wright's order had expired, the case had become what lawyers call "moot," meaning that a decision would not have any practical consequences. But not one of his colleagues voiced agreement with Judge Wright's original action...
...Some people can't adjust to the atmosphere of betrayal necessary," says Businessman John Moot, president of Games Research. "It's a tradition that women are masterful liars, but I've found that most women playing Diplomacy can't bring themselves to lie, or else they are very bad at it. My wife got extremely upset the first time I doublecrossed her, and now, although she understands it intellectually, she still can't accept a betrayal emotionally...
...suggested that under the trimester plan many law professors would not be able to take vacations when they wanted them, and that competitions for Law Review and moot court would be hard to conduct...
...general intellectual counterattack to all this was summed up in a letter to the daily Aftonbladet. "Is a film immoral," asked the writer, "just because it shows immoral people?" The point remains moot in smoldering Stockholm. Bergman himself has had no disturbing second thoughts. Silence is the third segment of a trilogy about God, according to Ingmar. The first two parts were Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Silence is intended to depict the cold horror of human existence when God averts his face and there is no light...
...question the superiority of the Isley Brothers, but the relative merits of Shout and Twist and Shout is a moot point. We shall leave it to our discerning readership to decide