Word: restedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prosecution. What the Government had to prove was that Oilman Sinclair had conspired with Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior in the Harding Cabinet, to lease the Teapot Dome oil reserve fraudulently in 1922. The Government proceeded to show that Fall avoided other bids for the lease until after...
At the close of the week, on the trial's fifth day, the Government rested its rapidly presented case. The defense, elaborate and high-priced, immediately began its presentation and was expected to take about 10 days or two weeks at it.
To the destroyer Paulding, which gored the S-4 and whose commander the court also criticized, Secretary Wilbur did not refer explicitly. He admitted that submarines have to look out for surface vessels, insisting only that the latter should be careful. So there, apparently, rested the controversy between the Navy...
From Basra, Irak, they followed along the River Euphrates and in the early evening flew above the flat country to Aleppo. At Aleppo, they rested long enough to remember seeing a pretty girl, whose name they would never learn, standing in the amazed crowd that watched them fly away.
For 15 maddening minutes the engine "rested," then Koehl gave her the gun, Fitzmaurice waved, and five tons of man, hope, and machinery lumbered down the long runway. Once they rose and bumped, but, with the ditch in sight, the Bremen took the air, swung sharply to the right to...