Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOST PEOPLE assume that if they don't align their single vote with a mass movement of thousands, they can't possibly determine the result of the election. They're wrong...
MOST PEOPLE discover purely by accident that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...
...times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders. "You rotten bastards!" he roars, when things go wrong. "You bloody, treacherous morons...
Steel also claimed that these days the court is relying on the "good faith" of racist white officials to assure that Negroes are seated on juries in state courts and enjoy other constitutional rights. In Steel's opinion, it is wrong to answer that the court has set the pace of racial progress for the rest of the Government. Instead, he contends, "a cautious Supreme Court has waltzed to the music of the white majority-one step forward, one step backward, sidestep, sidestep...
...Pentridge Prison, testified that he had examined Hannell, found him to be an XYY. The imbalance, coupled with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating only eleven minutes, a Melbourne criminal-court jury found Hannell not guilty on the ground that he was insane at the time of the crime...