Word: misbehaviors
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...Fitter and Robert W. Archbald. Both set important precedents, but it was the 1912 impeachment of California Federal Judge Archbald that established a significant principle in the question of whether an impeachable offense must involve a criminal act. Archbald faced charges of accepting money and favors-but his misbehavior was considered unethical rather than criminal. His lawyer, Alexander Simpson, argued that criminality must be involved. Treason, bribery and high crimes are by definition criminal, he observed. "Everybody knows that a misdemeanor taken technically is a crime pure and simple," he said. "If it is taken in the popular sense...
...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...
...reasons beyond human imagination made all the males go ape at mating season, was a model mother when the study began. She played with her babies continually, picked them up at the first whimper, followed every slap with a squeeze and cleverly distracted her child when she saw misbehavior in the making; but as she grew older she became grandmotherly and spoiled one little chimp rotten. As he approached maturity, he was still a screaming ninny...
...president of the New York City board of education last week suggested a novel teacher's aid: astrology. At an educational forum, Isaiah E. Robinson said that "if astrology is correct," some classroom problems of misbehavior may be caused by pupils whose birth signs conflict with those of other children, or possibly their teachers'. It may be, Robinson suggested, that teachers should take the planets into consideration to understand the kids better. Presumably, a Taurian heaving erasers at an Aquarian may have his cosmic reasons...
...acting like the schoolteacher who makes the whole class stay after school because of the misbehavior of one student...