Word: restedness
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When the defense rested, the task of the trial commission no longer seemed simple. Yamashita's spirited defense had suddenly emphasized the lack of precedent for war crimes trials, the vagueness of the charges-violation of the rules of war. The commission had other problems. What was Yamashita-a...
The German people were not on trial; neither was Germany as a nation (said Jackson: ". . . we have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people"). The case against the 20 men in the dock rested on the prosecution's theory of "individual responsibility" ("Who was responsible for these crimes...
The success or failure of Indo-China's independence movement now rested largely on China. The main forces of the rebellious Viet Nam ("Distant South," the ancient name for Annam province) had been pushed back to their stronghold in the colony's north. There, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Answers varied: he was in Moscow, tanned and rested; he was dead; he had suffered a disabling heart attack during his Caucasus vacation; he did not dare risk a cold by exposing himself suddenly to northern weather; he had deliberately stayed away in order to watch his subordinates perform. One...
On Navy Day old Pat rested alongside two sisters who were awaiting the same forlorn ending-the heroic Dewey and Farragut. Across Manhattan, in the North River, the august battleships and carriers and the newer cans of the U.S. Fleet took the applause.