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Word: rhadamanthus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...kind of testimony and evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: When the Time Is Ripe | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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