Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team does a lot of its own legwork," she added...
...special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton shooting took place a year and a half ago, has no investigators to interview witnesses or do any other legal legwork. The prosecutor must assent before a private lawyer can actually argue a criminal case in court, but some are willing just to make a statement of the case at the beginning of the trial and turn the rest over to the lawyer hired by the victim's family. Kentucky Attorney General...
...Robbie Sims (the half-brother of Marvin Hagler), winner of the outstanding fighter award at the New England AAU championships and a definite Olympic contender, will head the card," Jackson said excitedly, as he peddled tickets in the Lowell dining hall. Hundreds of phone calls and miles of legwork later, George Jackson not only sounds like, but is, the promoting wunderkind of boxing at Harvard. Division Boston New York 106 lb. Joe Roach Louis Hernandez 112 lb. Eddic Reardon George Pimentell 119 lb. Jimmie Lyons Jorge Vasquez 125 lb. Tony Verga Steven Boyd 132 lb. John Curran Mike Dominquez...
Nevertheless, Schorr goes to elaborate pains to present a thorough, objective account of his years at CBS, his confrontation with the House Ethics Committee, the pressures put both on him and on the networks by the Nixon administration, and various other highlights of his career. Applying the same aggressive legwork that the distinguished him from most other television journalists, Schorr interviewed nearly all the characters who played a prominent role in "the story." These interviews revealed information previously unknown to Schorr, helping him better understand why certain decisions were made and certain events occurred...
There are, of course, thousands of stories like that in any large city. In the search for Son of Sam, police could rely only on hunches honed by years of experience in deciding which reports warranted legwork. A man seen dancing to music from a portable radio at one of the victim's graves in a Bronx cemetery one night last week obviously merited study...