Word: petitiveness
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Economists use computers and complicated formulas to plot changes in the cost of living, but the U.S. housewife has a simpler way. Says Mrs. Donald R. Petit, a Miami mother of three: "I spend $25 to $30 a week for groceries, and it comes out to $5 a bag. Last week, for the first time, they put $25 worth of groceries into only four bags...
...First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little boy, he explained, because "he seemed as unhappy as I was when...
...little foreknowledge, this need not be. Nearly all the better things at the fair are free, and those that are not cost little. Actually, the biggest money drain is the high cost of drinks. In Switzerland the gutters are full of kirsch, but at the Swiss chalet a petit shot costs $1.25. Cocktails and highballs are rare at $1, more common...
...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...