Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully checked against real ones. At last came the test. A Gestapo agent took some of the bogus notes to a Zurich bank, said he was afraid that they were counterfeit, asked the Swiss to run tests on them. The bank even checked numbers with London and reported its verdict: the notes were genuine...
Like a man sideswiped by a fast car, Ohio's cherubic Governor Mike Di Salle dazedly picked himself up last week and felt around for broken bones. It was hit and run-but no accident. The driver: Presidential Hopeful John F. Kennedy. The verdict: the boldest power play thus far in the 1960 Democratic race...
...lover; and she was now lying to save her husband's life. The defense (James Stewart) contends that both husband and wife are telling the truth, and asks acquittal on the ground that the lieutenant had been rendered "temporarily insane" by what had happened to his wife. The verdict is predictable, but the ending has a surprise twist...
...everything including St. Patrick, his children's dog Checkers, and Pat Nixon's good old Republican cloth coat-and went off the air in tears, thinking that he had made a mess of it. Minutes later, Producer Darryl Zanuck called to deliver an old pro's verdict: "The most tremendous performance I've ever seen...
...real smasher," cooed unabashed Juror Friend on the front pages of the London press. "I was tremendously thrilled with our verdict. I was bubbling over with it." Then she called Liberace's room at the Savoy. But the pianist had left to play before a packed house at the Chiswick Empire. When a woman there shouted: "Let's have one for Mr. Connor!", Liberace turned to the keyboard and rippled out Jealousy...