Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year conviction of Playwright LeRoi Jones for carrying guns during the 1967 Newark riot. Jones claimed that Newark police planted two guns in his car. Without deciding the dispute, the three appeals justices ruled that Essex County Judge Leon W. Kapp gave a "devastatingly improper and fatally unfair" charge to the jury. Kapp had also sentenced Jones to 30 days in prison for contempt after the playwright reacted to a ruling from the bench with what the judge termed "an epithet descriptive of excrement." The superior court, maintaining that Jones had not been given an opportunity to be heard, also...
Letters from Soviet listeners, in fact, filter through fairly often. Some write to complain about programs they consider unfair to the Soviet Union. But many more make it clear that the diversity of opinion expressed in foreign broadcasts provides the most credible source for news about their own country as well as the world. Regular listeners are kept informed about U.S. urban strife and protests against the war in Viet Nam, for example, and the BBC led off a roundup of editorial comment two weeks ago with the disarmingly frank observation that "most politicians must agree that...
...fighter became the fated protagonist in two of the most controversial fights in ring history. The result was that for nearly half a century he was dismissed by the great majority of fight fans as the Great White Hoax. It was an unfair judgment, and before he died last week at 86, Willard was belatedly recognized as one of boxing's most underrated heavyweights...
...Arabs. Last week, however, William Scranton, Nixon's roving fact finder, said while in the Middle East that the U.S. should adopt a more "evenhanded" approach. He repeated the phrase after reporting to Nixon in New York. Scranton's implication was clear: the U.S. had been unfair to the Arab states. Nixon himself has not indicated any modification in U.S. policy, and Israel's Moshe Dayan said after conferring with Nixon that he did not anticipate any reduction of U.S. support for his country. But Scranton's remarks at least hinted that the Nixon Administration would...
...probably unfair to judge the results of a conference solely on what gets into the transcript. Much of the constructive dialogue was undoubtedly personal and informal, over drinks or coffee. But whether this "cross-fertilization of ideas," as some IACF people were fond of calling it, justified such an immense outlay of funds is uncertain at best...