Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge Greene has just acquitted all twelve defendants. A judge cannot decide obscenity cases merely upon "his own predilections and prejudices," he said. "When a judge condemns without evidence, he is acting not as a court of law but as a censor. I decline that role." Holding that the burden of proof in obscenity cases was still fully upon the prosecutor, Judge Greene dismissed all charges because "the prosecutor failed in these cases to prove a vital element of the offenses...
...rely on common-sense assumptions in situations where only experts are competent to judge causation. In the Deutsch case, for example, the jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example: A dies from the simultaneous effects of a shooting...
Warning the American people that they must be prepared "to carry - perhaps for a long, long time - the burden of a confusing and costly war," Johnson said somberly that "we have a long way to journey" before the "shadow that hangs over all of Asia tonight will will begin to recede." Well, you say, 'When will that day come?' And I'm sorry to say I cannot tell you. Only the men in Hanoi can give you that answer. We are fighting a war of determination. It may last a long time." Addressing Hanoi, he declared: "Victory...
...Amerasians: "There has been war, there is war, and young American men have impregnated strange women. Of this meeting a new people is being born. Shall this new people, innocent and helpless in childhood, bear the whole burden of our times...
...whose membership was 50% white only five years ago. Black power is certainly submerging the bread-and-butter issues that matter deeply to aspiring Negroes. Perhaps most tragic of all, it turned last week into an attack on the Negro middle class, which has borne most of the leadership burden of the civil rights struggle and has the technical and professional know-how that is indispensable in preparing other Negroes to pass through the doors now opening. At the CORE convention, middle-class Negroes were derided as ''black-power brokers," "handkerchief heads," and "Dr. Thomases" (Uncle Toms with...