Word: wheeling
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...Jane Wheel, a former teacher, and Charles Delaney, a restaurant owner, overruled Morse and demanded that Hunt be tried for first-degree murder, a ruling now under appeal. Wheel and Delaney were exercising this legal authority in their roles as "assistant judges." Also known as side judges, these officials are ordinary citizens with no legal training who are elected to sit beside the state's law-trained superior court judges and share much of their judicial power. There are 28 of these citizen judges in Vermont, two in each of the state's 14 counties. They...
...criminal proceedings, the superior courts have tended to hear only murder and kidnaping cases. Some assistant judges are upset with a 1982 law that allows prosecutors to take even those cases to district courts, where there are no assistant judges. Side Judge Wheel contends that "this is one place where the people's judges should sit, particularly for the sentencing of one human being who has taken the life of another...
...Violence End Now) in St. Louis, says the typical spouse beater is unable to cope with the traditional notion of masculinity. "Not maleness, but the traditional male role, which requires men to be stoic. It requires men to not need intimacy, to be in control, to be the 'big wheel,' and when there is a problem to 'give 'em hell.' The difficulty is that nine out of ten men fail at that list, at least in their own judgment...
Like most of his buddies, Mason had believed that all Asians were unworthy of U.S. salvation. But in a smoldering village, he began to understand the hubris of Western technology. Of an ancient water wheel, he writes: it was "as efficient as any device our engineers could produce. The knowledge that built it was being systematically destroyed...
...story of standing in the White House situation room and ordering Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to send the Sixth Fleet toward the warring Middle East in 1967 to protect American interests. During such retellings, Johnson acted as if he could feel the great hulls shudder and begin to wheel around after he spoke a few quiet words. Oh what a lovely...