Word: three-year-old
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...between Mrs. Meir and the hawkish Gahal faction of her Cabinet. At the first mention of the word "withdrawal" in her speech to the Knesset (parliament), Gahal Leader Menahem Begin rose from his Cabinet seat and walked slowly past Golda to the members' benches, thus fracturing the three-year-old government of national unity. Nonetheless, the Premier easily won support for her peace stand by a vote...
...Duke made 174 pictures before he reached the winners' circle with True Grit. Big Roman made it on his first try. The three-year-old thoroughbred, John Wayne's only race horse, made his debut with a convincing two-length victory in the fifth race at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. Big Roman ran the six furlongs in a creditable 1:10 3/5, opening speculation as to what he might do with his 250-lb. boss in the saddle...
WRINGER WASHING MACHINES. More than 100,000 people are injured by such wringers each year. Not long ago, for example, a mother in Columbus, Ohio, found her three-year-old daughter strangled by a wringer. The industry has finally begun to install a device that releases the rollers when there is a tug in the opposite direction. Millions of older washers have no such equipment...
...Three-year-old Melody McGuire ran into the kitchen screaming that there was "a big worm" in her sandbox. Children are taught to play cautiously-if they are allowed outside at all. The suburban routine for housewives now includes decapitating rattlers with a shovel. Melody's parents have killed 18 of them since the family moved to Pinole in 1968. At least one husband keeps a .22-cal. rifle ready in his closet...
...youths to understaffed reform schools for terms far longer than the jail sentences that adults would have received for similar offenses. In most states, young people can be deemed delinquent if a "preponderance of the evidence" indicates their guilt-the same standard used in civil suits. Applying a three-year-old precedent that entitles juveniles to "the essentials of due process and fair treatment," a 5-to-3 majority of the court ruled that juveniles must be proved guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt," which is the more rigorous standard used when adults are prosecuted. Burger's dissent, joined...