Word: warrantize
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After a telephone tip one day last week, police rushed to busy Oxford Street, the heart of London's main shopping district, where bombs were said to have been planted. Police Explosives Expert Kenneth Howorth, 49, a former army warrant officer who had tackled I.R.A. bombs in Northern Ireland, went into a Wimpy hamburger shop to defuse one of the bombs. It blew up in his face, killing him instantly. Another bomb, hidden in a rest room in a nearby department store, was successfully removed by an explosives expert, who had just heard the blast that he knew...
...incident is a brutal sign of the growing occupational and safety hazards of work on the bench. Though there are few figures on threats against judges, the U.S. Marshals Service, which provides security for the federal bench, says that cases serious enough to warrant a personal guard rose from 58 in fiscal...
...common folk. Fortunately, Cain later loosened up on the aint's and the you all's, and began constructing his characters around more than just their accents. Yet despite their shortcomings these dialogues reveal just enough of what would become widely known as Cain's "hard-boiled" writing to warrant inclusion in the collection, and, as Norman Mailer said of his own early writings in Advertisements for Myself, they allow the reader the luxury of seeing a writer at his worst as well as at his best...
When Wright originally asked for an extension of her contract, Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and chairman of the Afro-Am Department and the executive committee, denied the request on the grounds that there were not "sufficient and compelling reasons" to warrant the measure...
...World War II. As the novel begins, McCullough appears ready to try her hand at a limited, intricate dissection of life's anomalies, rather than the universal truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward X are all psychologically unbalanced, though not crazy enough to warrant being shipped off to out-and-out psycho wards at the army's expense. Nurse Honour Langtry tends this motley flock and plays the role of mother, protector and confessor to her charges. She and her patients have been patiently awaiting their discharges when the sudden arrival of Sergeant Michael...