Word: recherche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the least productive of any in the U.N.'s 19 years. Not only did the Assembly meet 2½ months late, but once it had gotten together, it could not adopt an agenda, it could not begin debate on its budget, and even the filling of such recherché posts as the secretary-generalship of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) required bizarre behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Last week the Assembly's 114 delegates found themselves stealthily marking unofficial secret ballots in a tiny alcove off the vast Assembly Hall to decide whether Gabon...
...book offers help on the more recherché crimes-dacoity ("armed robbery by five or more persons") or embracery (an attempt to corrupt or influence juries). It dallies in wordplay, both criminal and legal. An Englishman kicked off his boots on the gallows to disprove his mother's prophecy that he would die in them; a British judge, asked why he dubbed a certain barrister "Necessity," answered: "Because he knows no law." It corrects popular misconceptions: Bertillon, far from creating fingerprint identifications, was skeptical of their value. It shows how greatly writers can misconceive: Conan Doyle protested that developing...