Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...
Union Member. Warren's trademark on the bench was to interrupt a counsel's learned argument citing precedent and book with the simple, almost naive question: "Yes, but is it fair?" He believed that social justice was more important than legalisms: "You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important...
COURT: Let me interrupt you for a moment. I want to cast this thing in its perspective...
During the lawyers' presentations, committee members were supposed to interrupt only to ask questions that would clarify a point. In the interest of bipartisan harmony, however, Rodino interpreted that standard broadly. As a result, the sessions often bogged down in seemingly interminable-and sometimes irrelevant-questions or debates. Once the members argued for 90 minutes over whether certain material should be labeled "fact" or "evidence." Finally they decided to call it a "statement of information...
...chief designer for the Hancock project. The architect group urged that the Boston Board of Appeals deny Hancock's petition for zoning variance until the insurance firm could come up with a "modified" plan better suited for the character of Copley Square. The BSA feared that the building would interrupt the serene pattern of the neighboring Trinity Church and the Florentine Boston Public Library...