Word: scintilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians could make important underground tests without leaving a scintilla of telltale fallout-thus leaving detection to highly fallible, faraway seismographs...
...Fifth Amendment before a federal grand jury. Trujillo has refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...
...himself, there was "not a scintilla of a possibility" that Tom Dewey would be trying again for the White House in 1960. Said Lawyer Dewey. slipping away: "I'm an empty barrel...
Last year a federal court in Pittsburgh found Murray Kram guilty on ten counts of mail fraud, socked him with a $4,500 fine, three months in jail and five years' probation. Last week, ruling that there was "hardly a scintilla" of evidence that Murray had misled his customers, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Despite the court's action, Murray Kram, 28, felt that the mail business was getting too uncomfortable. But he already had a new, eminently legal career in mind: aiding churches as a professional fund raiser, at 15% of the gross...
...Revenge. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr.: "This is a black and shameful page in the history of the Philadelphia police department . . . and ... an ominous counterpart of what occurs daily behind the Iron Curtain. The police had not one scintilla of evidence . . ." Less than an hour later, six Philadelphia policemen, whom Sheeler accused, were suspended from the force, among them an assistant superintendent of police and the head of the homicide squad...