Word: windedness
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His hushed audience was the jury of twelve (plus four alternates) finally picked to hear the trial of eleven Communists, charged with conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government. For weeks the Reds' lawyers had incessantly argued that their clients would not get a fair trial because New York'...
The deeper difficulty is that the world around Aaron Gadd never seems to be the world of 1848. Doubtless there were revivalists as blunt as the Reverend Mr. Chippler, missionaries as self-seeking as Balthazar Harge and theologians as long-winded as Deacon Popplewood. But there were others, too. Whatever...
Though his patience was often tried to the breaking point, debonair, dignified District Judge Harold Medina let them go their long-winded way. But last week, with something of the air of a sleepless man shouting at 3 o'clock revelers, the judge finally called a halt to the...
* Judge Edward C. Eicher, faced by 30 defendants and some 20 long-winded lawyers, died on 102nd day of the 1944 sedition trial in Washington, D.C., thus ending the action. All indictments have since been dismissed.
Lesser Evil. In Sunnyvale, Calif wearied by Bob Sarvis' long-winded, 20-minute protest over a $1 traffic fine, Judge Peter R. Bond paid the fine himself.