Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Check or Balance? This historic contention, which seems headed for a historic decision in the Supreme Court, was made in Washington district court before Federal Judge David A. Pine, a small, stoop-shouldered veteran of the bench. Now 60, Judge Pine once clerked for Wilson's Attorney General James McReynolds, who later became one of the crustiest conservative Justices of the Supreme Court and a target of Franklin Roosevelt's famed failure, the court-packing plan. A lifelong Democrat, elevated to the district court by Roosevelt in 1940, Pine is known for his independent thinking, dry humor, incisive...
...Think Over. Obviously surprised by such a sweeping assertion of presidential powers, Judge Pine prodded Attorney Baldridge into some awkward corners...
...Judge Pine: Do you contend that the Executive has unlimited power in an emergency...
Amid the craggy wastes of Hashemite Jordan, wiry, Nevada-born Engineer John Monroe looks not much bigger than a pine sapling, but last week the local Bedouins were calling him "the Man Mountain." And why not? For if Allah, in his wisdom, sees fit to move a mountain, and a little man all alone pushes it back again, is not that man as good as the mountain...
...Ecco Roma!" is her invocation. "A city of bells and hills and walls; of many trees nordic and tropical together, pine, ilex, and palm, and water and a disturbing depth of shadows; of acres of ruins, some handsome, some shabby lumps and dumps of useless masonry, sprinkled through acres of howling modernity-an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn...