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Word: would (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be cited in any civil suits for triple damages, they changed their pleas to nolo contendere and threw themselves on the mercy of the court. While this is equivalent to a guilty plea, the fact could not be used in civil suits, thus lessening the risk that they would be filed. The defendants were also persuaded by the fact that 1) no one had ever received a prison sentence on a nolo contendere plea in antitrust cases, and 2) the Justice Department agreed to recommend only fines ($5,000 for the companies). But Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Mercy of the Court | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but her parents were colorful. Mamma Leiter was something of a malapropster. With an imperious gesture she would call attention to the imported "statutes in the nickies" of her marbled mansion in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dollar Princesses | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...years ago. Sinclair, then 24, was living in two tents near Princeton, NJ. and doing research from books hauled from the university library in a rented horse and buggy. Years have left the innocent style intact-a genuine fustian or homespun purple-as well as the sentimentality, which would shame Dickens for a cynic. Thus the novel is not only a publishing oddity but it gives a rare picture of how the most tragic event in U.S. history looked to a generation three or four wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molasses & Manassas | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...maid of high or low degree Was safe from his unbridled lechery. Within his house, upon his maids And servants' wives he preyed. Until he fell into the error Of thinking that his mortal shell would last forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

dice. Now that I am old and weary, I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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