Word: processional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As every U.S. schoolboy learns, the Bill of Rights struck down tyranny's "double jeopardy" practice of trying a man more than once for the same crime. But, as any well-educated lawyer knows, a long procession of Supreme Court decisions holds that separate trial by federal and state...
Telephones jingled in five Baghdad embassies. A procession of limousines, national flags aflutter from their fenders, drove up outside Iraq's yellow brick Foreign Ministry. One by one, the ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim...
Next day Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind...
Student unrest grew until Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of more than 1500 Yalies converged on the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, throwing snowballs at marching policemen and interrupting the procession. A 60-man riot squad arrived on the scene, armed with billy-clubs, blackjacks, and a fire hose...
Under the doctrine of judicial review, the U.S. Supreme Court has the last word on basic U.S. law-and no good lawyer would have it otherwise. Likewise, good U.S. lawyers believe that they have a professional responsibility to judge the kind of law laid down by the court, and to...