Word: willfullness
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4) Nixon's "willful" evasion of income taxes.
The fact is that the word "deliberate" is a term of art. It does not mean necessarily willful in the ordinary criminal sense as defined in this circuit, for example. This is a quote:
Any argument that considerations of national security made the burglary a legal act has been flatly ruled out by Judge Gesell. In fact, argued Prosecutor Merrill, the break-in was "the willful, arrogant act of men who took the law into their own hands because they thought they were above...
Irrational Act. Summerlin had been experimenting with ways to avoid the immune system response that causes transplanted tissues and organs to be rejected. He had received wide publicity for claiming that several animals had been successfully grafted with skin from others that were genetically dissimilar. Summerlin makes no attempt to...
Pompidou's successor, whoever he is, may find it hard to restore the exuberant French self-confidence that was one of the great Gaullist legacies. Unless next month's elections deliver a resounding vote of confidence in Gaullism, the operative fact in European affairs is not likely to...