Word: nonsupport
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...right to remain silent to the right to cross-examine. More recently, three different federal and state judges reviewing Troy decisions went out of their way to criticize his performance. In one case he was found to have been "both accuser and judge" of two men charged with nonsupport of their children. In another, a judge found that Troy had "coerced" a defendant by telling him his sentence would be suspended if he waived his right to appeal...
...astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders or a Clifton Webb, not in a sardonic side-of-the-mouth piece. Moreover, May's improvisatory direction overindulges a slew of minor players who could be sued for nonsupport...
...Products of the grim Appalachian hills, the three had drifted to Cleveland and failure. Gilly was once arrested for nonsupport of his family. Vealey was on parole from a burglary conviction. Martin was serving a 55-day term in the workhouse for assaulting a policeman...
...Hattie Mae Johnson is on the County. She has four children and her husband is now in jail for nonsupport, as he was unemployed and was not able to give her any money. Her welfare check is now $286 per month. Last night she went out with the biggest player in town. If she got pregnant, then nine months from now, how much more will her welfare check...
With more fervor than felicity of style, John Roche, the White House's staff intellectual, declared: "The A.D.A. has backed away from the nonsupport of totalitarianism." United Steel workers President I. W. Abel, whose union has been contributing some $10,000 annually to the A.D.A., wired National Chairman John Kenneth Galbraith that the repudiation of Johnson was "unwarranted, unrealistic and shortsighted...