Word: prolix
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...legal arguments were prolix, but the key question was clear: could Parliament by a simple majority override an Entrenched Clause of Britain's 1909 South Africa Act, which is the Union's basic constitutional law? Government lawyers said yes, otherwise the free Dominion of South Africa would still be fettered by Britain...
...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
...TIME propose to adapt itself to the "busy man?" The 16 pages of the prospectus, more prolix than the magazine it described, boiled down to three basic ideas...
...work last week descended from the committee level to the subcommittees. It was not lost from the sight of a vigilant and prolix press, but it was in that tentative, amorphous state where the detailed picture of it on one day would be out of focus the next...
Later the Count fled to the U.S. under an assumed name. He was seen at the Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...