Word: pleasingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Strangely, this is the first time a college player has ever actually stood trial on the charge of point shaving. Before, there were guilty pleas. But neither the press nor the public has appeared too interested in the trial. Except in Boston, little feeling has been stirred by the story...
For months striking workers held six complex electric motors, worth $3.7 million, inside the sooty brick factory of Laurence Scott & Electromotors in Manchester, England. The machines, including two ordered by the British Admiralty for installation in NATO submarines, were awaiting shipment 28 weeks ago, when the firm's 650...
After a drawn-out legal battle sensationalized by the local and national press, Milligan won--for a while. He was found not guilty and committed to a top-drawer mental health institution, just as his attorneys had requested. But ambitious politicians--the same sort who needlessly shuttle off marginal offenders...
Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon had already signaled the White House that they wanted to attend the funeral. Reagan decided to make it a full house. White House staffers tracked down Gerald Ford in New York, and he eagerly signed on. Then the White House and State Department began the...
Defendants have had little incentive to employ this defense, since the best hope it offered was usually a lifetime in a wretched mental hospital. In recent years, advances in drugs and psychotherapy, along with a trend toward returning mental patients to their communities, have reduced the average length of confinement...