Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a Buenos Aires court issued a writ of habeas corpus for Mariquita. She left the ship (see cut, p. 27), telling news men in a thin, frightened voice: "They won't succeed. . . . Somehow I'll find a way to escape if they put me on board again by force...
Napoleon won at Borodino, but not without heavy losses. It looked as if Hitler's battle for Moscow might be the same story, writ large...
Occasion of the drive is the first authorized Catholic English-language revision of Holy Writ since 1749, a simplified text which omits inverted phrases and archaic word forms, changes "tidings" to "news," "concupiscence" to "lust," "wilderness" to "desert," "bier" to "stretcher." Even the words of the sign of the cross, with which every Roman Catholic begins and ends his prayers, have been changed-the Holy Ghost is now called the Holy Spirit. Typical modernization: Matthew XIll's reference to Christ's miracle-working powers from "Whence therefore hath he all these things," to "Then where...
...Carson's desk, at Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, was an arsenal of blank search warrants, summonses, writs, a full repertory of badges for police, detectives, sheriffs, coroners, Federal agents. When a story broke Carson simply faked an appropriate document. A tough, impersonating reporter or Carson himself did the rest. The evidence was usually photostated in the office, quietly returned, the forged "writ" destroyed. A dozen sets of wiretapping apparatus supplemented his arsenal...
...York Supreme Court, Belgium's Government-in-exile obtained a writ attaching U.S. funds of the Bank of France. Explaining what the writ was about, Ambassador Extraordinary Georges Theunis had a strange story to tell...