Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply, "the breakthrough to the sea." One proper marine, Major General Oliver Prince Smith, whose leadership made the operation possible, immortalized the retreat (and himself) with a terse comment. "Retreat, hell!" he said. "We're just attacking in a different direction...
...comment on your Aug. 15 article, which states that a famed New Orleans surgeon, Dr. Alton Ochsner, joined the ranks of those opposing fluoridation of public water supplies, I wish to take issue that "these ranks are filled mainly with crackpots." When countless numbers of reputable physicians, dentists and scientists also oppose the adding of a powerful poison (even in small concentration) to our drinking water, the name-calling by the promoters of this highly controversial plan would seem to be extremely out of order...
...passing," says Williams, "it is perhaps in order to make another comment on the Pennsylvania Note. The writer of that Note condemns the dismissal of a Government employee for invocation of the amendment in investigations involving loyalty on the ground that invocation has not established disloyalty. This argument, like others arguing against action based upon invocation of the privilege, overlooks the fact that silence in the face of a suggestion of given conduct constitutes in itself evidence of that conduct. It is true that the silence is permitted by the amendment, but that fact in no way detracts from...
Concludes Williams: "The reader of Fifth Amendment literature cannot fail to be impressed by the subjective character of the approach often displayed. When businessmen and crooked politicians were under fire, comment on the Fifth Amendment in the law reviews and periodicals read by the intelligentsia was very hostile. Since the amendment has come to be invoked by intellectuals in the last few years, there has been a flood of highly sympathetic comment in the same publications...
...capital of Rabat. Ben Youssef must go, said El Glaoui. The colons loudly agreed. The French government suspected the strength of this movement, but was too weak-willed to resist it. Approving the order for Ben Youssef's removal, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault solaced himself with the comment: "It was either the Cross or the Crescent...