Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more imposing than the statistics was the fact that the case had only begun. It would be months before U.S. justice rendered its final verdict. Legal questions posed by the trial engaged lawyers, lawmakers, journalists. Far more would have to be decided than the fate of eleven sworn and cynical enemies of U.S. democracy. Enemies though they were, they had forced U.S. democracy to make a worried examination of itself. Men asked: Wasn't the very trial a violation of the basic rights of U.S. citizens...
Essence of Justice. The day before the verdict, Judge Harold Medina (rhymes with arena) had given the jury a long and careful charge. It was a model of lucidity, enlivened by the kind of homely advice which the astute Medina has made a legal stock in trade. "If you once get yourself in a frame of mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then...
...featureless party functionary. He had no private vices; he loved neither money nor pleasure, neither drink nor women. His only vice was public: an insatiable lust for power. This he cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and in a way which certainly contradicts Trotsky's intellectualistic verdict that Stalin was a mere mediocrity. Moreover, his uncanny coolness with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow showed that, whatever else he might be, he was a leader of titanic strength...
...country will be asked to give its verdict on what has been done," Bevan told a political meeting here. He urged voters to think of polities in terms of principles, not personalities, and added...
...wide split opinion raised the possibility yesterday that Congress may delay until next year its final verdict on the handling of Atomic Energy Commission affairs. Congressmen last night forecasted such a wide senate-House division over a draft of the AEO investigation results that it will be impossible to arrive at a majority vote before congress quits...