Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burden of the defense-beyond pleading that the rapists were not responsible for their crime by reason of youth or mental deficiency-was that the girl had willingly joined in sexual intercourse. That line was devastatingly rebutted by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Slappey, the first cop to talk to the victim after the crime. Asked to describe her condition, Slappey said that she was trembling, crying, "jerking all over and hysterical...
...home that night the commuter glanced out the window, discovered that ties on the trestle his train was just crossing at Port Chester, N.Y. were on fire ("Gee," said a conductor, "Look at the fire"). Returning to work early next morning, the commuter was more than an hour late. Reason: another mechanical breakdown on the New Haven...
...sign in a country that likes its Chancellors to be strong. But at week's end, attending a meeting in his native Bavaria. Erhard was cheered as he said that he had resisted an open fight with Adenauer because of the gravity of the international situation (the same reason Adenauer invoked for not stepping down). On the surface, Adenauer's control of his party and his victory over Erhard were incontestable, but wounds were not yet healed, costs were not yet reckoned, and the struggle not yet over...
...search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood calmly aside, officials examined everything in his luggage. Reason for the bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought together for the first time African leaders from every...
...tried to explain the expanding universe, or to explain it away. The most consistent theories postulate some strange, long-range force that operates only at enormous distances, pushing the galaxies apart in spite of the attraction of gravitation. But no one has measured this force or given a good reason why it should exist...