Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision: "The circumstances of pressure applied against the power of resistance of this petitioner, who cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combating crime too energetically." In any case...
...Declaration of Peace. Other questions and.other answers then came thick and fast. The gist...
...love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
...want our boys to be drafted," he said at Akron. "We don't want to live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud." At Youngstown. before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 10,000, he devoted a full-dress speech to military manpower. The gist: the draft, with its rapid manpower turnover, is wasteful, needlessly expensive and unsuited to an "age of complex new weapons and new military needs." His suggested alternative: a corps of professional, highly trained technicians that young men would be encouraged to join freely by offers of high wages, special bonuses and other inducements...