Word: well-chosen
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...well-chosen words-probably the longest court opinion ever written -Federal Judge Harold R. Medina last week told why he dismissed the antitrust case against 17 leading investment banking firms. The antitrust laws, he said, require proof of an agreement or conspiracy, something the Government attorneys had not shown. Wrote Medina: "The Sherman Act is not an open door through which any court or judge may pass at will in order to shape or mold the affairs of businessmen according to his own individual notions of sound economic policy . . . Unless there is some agreement, combination or conspiracy the Sherman...
...carpet of the 18-hole golf course, the tennis courts, the spacious yacht basin. But not the click of a driver was heard, or a splash from the water. Sitting on folding chairs under the oak trees were 800-odd men, women and children celebrating with hymns, prayers and well-chosen words the tenth anniversary of a summer gathering place for American (Northern) Baptists...
...dealt with the Reds. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy happily announced (without naming names) that two members of the China International Foundation's board had been active in Communist-front groups. Then the President, who was presumably hot-eyed also, called Newbold in to hear a few well-chosen words...
...Gehrmann, a pressagent for the American Automobile Association, and Fred Wilt, a plain agent for the FBI, know the turnstile value of a few well-chosen words. For three years they have been close competitors, chasing each other around the indoor track circuit in the mile run. Last week, after Gehrmann had beaten Wilt, by a matter of feet, for the second straight night, the milers began a battle of words...
...often, the film sacrifices action to authenticity; all the Indians' speeches must be translated into English, usually by a bibulous French scout (well played by Adolphe Menjou*), so that some scenes move almost as leisurely as a discussion at the U.N. But the picture fills the eye with the grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free...