Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relied heavily on the Fifth Amendment. The Government produced two witnesses who testified that, as party members, they were willing to register on behalf of the party, in effect waiving the Fifth Amendment. Both were paid FBI informers. At week's end the jury brought in a guilty verdict. Judge William B. Jones imposed a fine of $230,000-the maximum possible-and the Communists said that they would appeal...
...precedent-setting verdict last week, for example, an all-white jury in Hattiesburg, Miss., found Norman Cannon, 19, guilty of raping a 15-year-old Negro girl. Cannon is white-and not in living memory has a white Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro...
...business is on a contingent-fee basis," boomed the firm's senior partner, a highly spiced ham called "the Colonel." "We know that a bigger verdict is a bigger profit." Eager to share his arts, the Colonel proudly conducted a "tour of the plant...
...staff gathered round to hear him bid Bowman farewell. "Their impulses will run away with their reason! Read Freud! The Israelites had Moses as their advocate with Pharaoh! We are the advocates for the poor, the sick and the helpless-millions of deserving claimants! Drive hard for your verdict...
...businessman who travels or is as signed abroad these days will likely be dismayed to discover that it costs more to visit or live in a foreign city than ever before. Such is the verdict of the annual survey of 23 cities around the world conducted by London's staid Financial Times. The Times reports that the basic cost of food, clothing, lodging and entertaining has gone up almost everywhere-and suggests a few dos and don'ts for the savvy...