Word: petitive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly." But Shakespeare's audience instantly got the message: the sophistry is a satire on a real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury. When the coroner's jury ruled felo-de-se (suicide), Judge Hale's estate was forfeited to the Crown. Countering in court, his widow roused a wild debate over whether Hale's felonious...
...other union activities, leveling harsh sentences for criminal contempt without calling upon the grand jury for an indictment or allowing trial by jury. This unusual legal power of both accusing and judging has a long common law tradition, although it is inconsistent with the whole grand jury and petit jury system. Now the court has at least ruled that trial without jury will be allowed only if punishment is commensurate with sentences for petty offenses...
Annoyed by a rash of petit larcenies from his column, all committed by the Journal-American, McHarry invented the maharaja-Ali Rounj is an anagram for Journal, (with an i added for the sake of Ali); Estarh is an anagram for Hearst. Then the columnist began chronicling the maharaja's doings. Two months passed before the Journal-American, which went right on lifting other McHarry tidbits, bit on Ali Rounj...
...Gaulle's provincial ramble, the first since Secret Army gunmen tried to kill him last year at Petit-Clamart, began at Sedan, where so many jubilant thousands crowded the square before city hall that De Gaulle called upon his critics to note well his enthusiastic reception. As he moved on through the green meadows of the Meuse valley, every village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their...
...early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...