Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climbed down from the Marine Corps helicopter that had whirred him from Washington to Gettysburg. The President met Herter at his farmhouse door, took him inside for a 75-minute discussion on the Western Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting just concluded at Paris. Herter's verdict on the meeting: "Very successful." Next day, he went to Walter Reed Hospital, briefed ailing Predecessor John Foster Dulles...
Unhidden Persuaders. With such gossipy asides, Mahdawi had little time to waste on hearing the defense. The court-appointed defense counsel, a woman named Rasima Zainab, spoke less than 15 minutes for all of her 17 clients. She hailed Colonel Mahdawi as "a symbol of justice." Before the verdict was announced, Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...brought to Cuba last December by Dictator Batista's Chief of Staff, given a telescopic-sighted rifle, sent into the hills to hunt down Castro for $100,000. Nye said that he accepted the assignment only as a means of joining Castro's rebel army. The verdict was guilty and the sentence death by firing squad, suspended on condition that Nye leave Cuba. Within hours he flew to New Orleans, where he commented that he had had about as much chance of getting a fair trial as "a snowball in the place made famous by Dante...
...Verdict of the court, after three more such pleas: death by firing squad. The executions were carried out one morning last week, watched by relatives who jeered and spat at the victims...