Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, to reassure all that double trials would not become concentrated practice even if within the law. Attorney General William Rogers sent out a memorandum ordering the 94 U.S. attorneys to check with him, personally, before prosecuting any cases that might even look like state-federal double jeopardy...
...former Hall of Parliament, with spectators occupying the former Deputies' benches and Mahdawi and his fellow judges lolling on the speaker's rostrum-put four airmen in the dock for taking part in the Mosul revolt. It was a gala evening, witnessed by TIME Correspondent William McHale. Two hours beforehand every seat was filled; hundreds of ticketholders were turned away. The highlights of the performance...
...test this theory, Canadian Biologist William F. Baldwin chose one of the world's least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with...
...will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease," William Gladstone was said to have cried to his great political rival. Retorted Britain's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
Green Mansions. The South American rain forest of William Henry Hudson's sentimental classic has been sprayed with dime-store perfume. But Audrey Hepburn is spritely enough as a child of nature. The boy is Tony Perkins...