Word: moot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the prosecution won largely on a "technicality," there is little immediate hope for Cambridge pot-heads-the decision was awarded in the 58th annual Ames Competition, a moot court contest between third-year Law students conducted by the Harvard Law School...
...overflow crowd, 800 potential drug-users, jammed into the Ames Courtroom to hear the moot case. The clubs' faculty sponsors, Livingston Hall. Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Wesley E. Bevins Jr. 48, asst, dean of the Law School, agreed that they had never seen the Court and the participants so involved in a moot contest before...
...complaining connoisseur has a moot point, and even if we accept it, we are tempted to ask, So what? Whatever you call those units of writing that he lays down on paper, they speak to us. They laugh at the absurdity of our obsessions and they clarity the source of our worries. He writes about...
...same time, a mood of disillusionment might overtake the country and prompt a "Fortress America" spirit of isolationism. That prospect worries the non-Communist nations of Asia more than lingering "domino" fears. It is a moot question whether discord and bitterness over withdrawal would be greater than over continued war?and what true presidential leadership could do to soften the inevitable shocks of either course...
...than twice as long as Warren's (1801-35), have the Justices broken more new ground in the law. Serving as they did during a period of the greatest social upheaval in the U.S. since the Civil War and the Depression, the Justices refused to label many issues "moot" or "unripe," or to invoke any of the other legal techniques that would have enabled them to avoid controversy...