Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost 50 years, the Soviets have blamed the Germans for the Katyn massacre, despite evidence pointing unmistakably to Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. Last week a prominent American visitor rendered his own verdict. At the foot of the monument, he placed a bouquet of red roses bearing a handwritten message penned in both Polish and English: "For the victims of Stalin and the NKVD. Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...table we were sitting at returned something less than an "overwhelming verdict" of "kudos to HDS." We found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe...
They were called "vegetarian hamburgers," and admittedly, they didn't appear too appetizing. Tofu and sprouts don't a patty make, skeptics cried. But surprisingly, the overwhelming verdict was kudos to HDS for a fine meal. Even HDS themselves were caught off guard--the patties were gone in Dunster and Mather...
...drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...
Just before the inevitable verdict came down last week, a gaggle of Jim Bakker's faithful backers defiantly held aloft a King James Bible opened to Psalm 17: 3: "Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing." But the jury sang a different psalm: Guilty as charged on all 24 counts of defrauding the public of $3.7 million via TV, phone and mail. Testimony about one of the ripest scandals in U.S. religious history had consumed 25 days; the jury needed less than eleven hours to decide...