Word: confront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports or confront and cross-examine the FBI informants that weighed against...
...field of electromagnetism, and thus resolve every cosmic motion into a single set of laws. On three occasions Einstein felt sure he was on the point of grasping the "final truth." But he had to admit last year that he had "not yet found a practical way to confront the theory with experimental evidence," the crucial test for any theory...
Valery's shocked parents accepted and crossed into West Berlin one day last week to confront their runaway son. Valery listened skeptically to his mother's pleas and to his father's warnings of the grim fate that would await him in U.S. "concentration camps." At the end of 45 minutes, the boy, nervous and angry, stalked out of the room. Valery's mother, close to tears, asked permission to talk to her son alone. Valery came back. He was calmer then, but no less intransigent. After ten minutes, Mme. Lysikov returned to her husband...
...like to record each freshman's voice and make recommendations for speech training where it is needed. But the department has neither men nor money to do so. Surely speech tests must be at least as important as the battery of reading, writing, swimming, and jumping tests which now confront each freshman...
Despite a multitude of complex legal arguments Dr. Peters takes his stand on one main ground--that the government security set-up, by dismissing him for possible disloyalty without a chance to confront and cross-examine his accusers, denied him due process and violated his Constitutional rights. Both the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments to the Constitution are thus involved in the case. The specific right to confront accusers is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment only in "criminal prosecutions." The courts have interpreted this phrase however, to mean that wherever "punitive action" against an individual is involved, the full safeguards...