Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jurors fail to decide between the death sentence or life imprisonment for Calley, they have the option to lower the verdict to second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter. These verdicts may allow for a lesser sentence...
Something must be wrong, however, if-as is the case at the CLE-over half of the staff lawyers fail to return to the Center for two consecutive years...
...makes a lot of sense. You rent a hall, schedule a concert, then fail to advertise it. When the failure to advertise succeeds and few tickets are sold, you off the concert and assume that the people who did buy tickets won't mind not knowing. After all, might they not have easily enough intuited that cancellation was imminent (nay inevitable) inasmuch as there had been no effort to sell tickets...
...ever there has been a looser construction of the Constitution in this court's history," said Justice Hugo Black in a blistering ad lib accompanying his written dissent, "I fail to think what it is." Black drew a sharp distinction between the protected rights of poor criminal defendants brought to court against their will and the private, civil claims of the impoverished who come into court on their own. Black predicted that the decision will encourage divorces at taxpayers' expense and lead to a future court-imposed right to counsel for the poor in divorce and other civil...
Since not too many people attend Harvard matches, wrestling doesn't offer the notoriety most athletes crave. "A wrestler's satisfaction." Coleman explained. "lies in the knowledge that he must succeed or fail on his own. There is no one to fall back...