Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grateful, he said, "that under our American system there can be independent judgments by the jurors. This indicates that under provisions of the Constitution . . . only the jury system stands between the defendant and the law enforcement agencies, who seem to believe that while working for the Government their sole and only objective must be to convict regardless of the process...
Wilhelmina was the child of a May and December marriage. King William III married the German Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont when he was 62 and she 20. Wilhelmina, their only child, was sole heir to the 400-year-old Orange-Nassau line. Closely sheltered, she led so desperately lonely a life that she once admonished one of her dolls, "If you are naughty, I shall make you into a queen, and then you won't have any other little children to play with." Null & Void. In her solitude, she developed a faith so intensely personal that whenever...
...Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott. Abbott has willing and extremely winning helpers. As Ford's wife, constant listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from chore to chore on an imaginary bicycle. As a kind of fledgling adult who married the boss's daughter, works for the boss's lumber company and lives in the boss's house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second...
...William A. Klemperer, who cast the sole dissenting vote when the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy approved a motion which would give the departments the right to recommend that their students be denied the General Studies degree...
That the professorship be of University rank was requested, but not required. Mrs. Porter's sole stipulation was that whatever its rank, the chair should be for only humanists or social scientists. In particular, she mentioned the fine arts, music, philosophy, and literature...