Word: oyez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easily, made sure that each Justice was provided with his customary pencil, scissors and paper. In a few seconds they were gone. Abruptly, from behind the red draperies hanging between the Italian marble columns, the members of the court appeared, and the court crier chanted his old cry of "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez...
...traditional cry broke the cathedral silence of the marble courtroom: "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw nigh and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court." The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, convened in extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents...
From the steps of the Royal Exchange, the City of London's Common Cryer cried out: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! By the Queen, a proclamation dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another." So, last week, began Britain's fourth general election campaign since the closing days of World War II. The office-hungry Labor Party had only 20 days in which to wrest the government away from Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives. The challengers went into the fight as underdogs, but only slightly under (by 1%, according to the week's News Chronicle Gallup...