Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives did impeach Andrew Johnson. To impeach means to charge with a crime. What failed by one vote was the attempt to convict Johnson of the charges. The Senate, which has the sole right to try impeachment cases, acquitted President Johnson by a vote of 35 to 19, just one vote short of the required two-thirds majority...
...Murder (She Said), is, in form, a murder mystery, sensibly, 4:50 From Paddington. Miss Rutherford, you see, observes during the first minute of the movie, a murder on a train running parallel to one on which she is traveling; and naturally enough, her sole object thereafter is to track down the malfeasant. The police, equally naturally, are rather stupid, and think Miss Rutherford's gone barmy. She, consequently, marches fearlessly to the house where she has traced the skulduggery, and in her most formidable dowager's tweeds, and devastatingly sensible shoes, assumes the post of cook-chambermaid, the better...
...square fact is," Walter asserted, Congress is the sole judge of what it for the security of the country." must conduct a "continual of Communist activities to be Congress with current ust as the Committee on Inter and Foreign Commerce keeps a watch on corporation mergers, plained...
...came under the influence of Lord Russell, who is certainly old enough to know better than to incite young people to break the laws of this country." Then he meted out the stiffest sentences ever given in Britain for a civil disobedience case: one year in prison for the sole woman defendant, 18 months for each of the five...
Wertenbaker (Henry Fonda) becomes a self-dramatizing romantic, and an intellectual hedonist with a somewhat arrogant presumption about accepting life or death on any but his own terms. Being an "artist at living" is his sole belief, and when he drinks the hemlock of approaching death, it must be like an "exquisite brandy." His, and the play's, point of view is that man is essentially a good animal, and when he sees himself becoming a bad, i.e. maimed, animal, he may admirably put an end to himself...