Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, Texas juries are traditionally soft on women murderers, even the one who was convicted in 1955 after she cut up her children, packaged them and stored the pieces in her refrigerator; she got a life sentence. Says Houston Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, who in one year defended 13 women charged with murdering their husbands, got twelve off free and the 13th a five-year suspended sentence: "I like to defend women in murder cases. Juries will turn a woman loose on evidence that they'd convict...
...American for two years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play their own rugged brand of ball, but he survived the rattling rites of passage. On offense, his soft, floating jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every player, e.g., against Cincinnati he presses hook-shooting Clyde Lovellette, but he lies back for the dribbling of Maurice Stokes. In addition, Pettit's rubber-legged rebounding starts the Hawks hustling on their...
...Board by Hodges. Last week Hodges worked another ploy. Planning their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrats planned to invite as main speaker a tub-thumping segregationist, possibly Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge. Hodges held out for-and got-his own choice: Florida's soft-talking LeRoy Collins...
...only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic but only on the surface. Sansom is a real bloodletter. Suicide, madness and irreparable loss are the themes of other stories, and in each case the atmosphere is created with the soft, ghostly touch of a man who could feel at home in a haunted house...
STEEL PRICE BOOST of $5 to $7 a ton is coming in July. Steelmen are resigned to rise even if demand remains soft. One major reason: steelworkers' wages go up automatically July 1, and they will get additional hike if cost-of-living rise continues...