Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black yonder. Moreover, while the industry is still amortizing its present jet fleet, it has also ordered 480 new planes that will cost $2.4 billion. To the airline executives, cruising between past expense and future commitments, the present profits did not seem overly lavish-and the boss appeared somewhat unfair...
...lengthy (14 pages), sharp dissent, Justice Black (joined by Justice Douglas) attacked the majority's logic in freeing Dollree Mapp for an offense committed in 1957 while holding Victor Linkletter for an offense committed in 1958. The result, wrote Black, was "grossly invidious and unfair discrimination against Linkletter simply because he happened to be prosecuted in a state that was well up with its criminal docket." But the court stuck to its pragmatic rule that Mapp now applies only to current and future cases-thus delighting prosecutors across the country...
...delegates urged action against unfair-housing practices and denial of voting rights to Negroes. They also deplored "the open and premeditated violation of civil laws, the destruction of property, the shedding of human blood, or the taking of life as a means of influencing legislation or changing social and cultural patterns...
...exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities of political imagination. Other dictators, from Hitler and Nasser to Sukarno and Fidel Castro, are inferior imitators...
...eyebrows last year as Izzy declined to equivocate on questions from a Kirkland forum: "Jimmy Hoffa? He's a lousy crook. Belongs in jail. . . . Dean Rusk? The kind of guy you grow at Harvard--a sophisticated, educated, cultivated big bag of nothing.") A subscriber's salvation is that the unfair, bull-headed way Stone maligns his heroes is more than compensated for by the way he rears back and knocks the living daylights out of his villains...