Word: asking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE and forget past sins is a peculiar American habit. Ask Richard Nixon, elected to the White House six years after giving a creditable impression of a psychotic in the wake of the California gubernatorial election...
Because Ted Kennedy promises results, we don't stop to ask ourselves whether or not he lied to us, whether or not we can trust him as a man. We may be able to, but we're not even asking. His name helps him overcome Chappaquidick, but it wouldn't have been enough in 1976. It is enough now, because of our panic...
...soon as classes were over, the instruction really began," recalls one former student and colleague, Ayatullah Mohammed Javad Bahonar. "The discussions would go on for hours. He was never pleased unless you could stand up to him. He demanded research and curiosity. He wanted you to ask, to probe, to argue. The two issues he emphasized were the necessity for Islam and Iran to be independent of both Eastern and Western colonialism and the need to get the clergy put of the mold of an academic straitjacket. He said the clergy had a responsibility for humanity not only in Iran...
...savvy as well as verbal skills. They learned, for example, that it can be a sign of respect, not belligerence or guilt, when a Hispanic youth looks down rather than directly at a policeman in conversation. Said Officer Cesarini: "Before, when they'd come up to us and ask us something, we'd wonder what they were asking. Now I feel like I can help." Added Student Apprentice Rich: "I thought these policemen would want to learn stuff like 'Halt, put up your hands.' But they're more concerned about their interactions with other people...
...this is not to claim an absolute privilege for journalists. Newsmen should not ask the same standing that a lawyer or doctor has in dealing with clients or patients; lawyers and doctors after all are licensed, which is precisely what journalists will not and must not be. Obviously the American journalist enjoys unusual latitude and he must, therefore, bear unusual responsibility. He must expect a certain rough-and-tumble in his trade, and not wrap himself in the Constitution at every setback. By no means were all recent court rulings unmitigated disasters. The court in effect allows the press...