Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inherent Compulsion. To dispel that coercive atmosphere, "adequate protective devices" must be employed. The Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination is so fundamental to U.S. justice, said Warren, and an adequate reminder of the privilege can be so simply delivered to suspects, that there is no excuse for failing to give it. Congress and the individual states, he stressed, should be encouraged to "continue their laudable search for increasingly effective ways of protecting the rights of the individual while promoting efficient enforcement of our criminal laws." As the search goes on, though, the right to silence and the opportunity to exercise...
Foremost in Luci's thoughts at the moment is her Aug. 6 wedding to Patrick J. Nugent. Eager to dispel the stigma of a teen-age marriage, she coolly reasons that by August, Pat will be 23 and she will have turned 19, concludes therefore that "our ages will average out at over 21." Adds the bride...
Better with Rats. All of these teachers, and the others on the cover, have some common qualities that tend to dispel what Cornell's Perkins calls the "marvelous smoke screen" teachers have thrown up to convey the notion that "what they are doing is an occult mystery." All have demonstrated sound scholarship through publication. All are immersed in a conviction that their scholarship has an irresistible relevance to life, and feel compelled to convey that relevance. And all believe that in sights, ideas, ways of thinking, methods of inquiry, are far more important to implant in young minds than...
...members of the Harvard Rugby Club strongly believe in that tradition. They are working hard this year to dispel any adverse image Harvard rugby has had in the past...
Deep in the bowels of Widener, an unnoticed cardboard box languishes under a soft blanket of dust amid myriad shelves of forgotten books. Once every few days, a leisurely old man walks down the silent aisle and stops, pulling the cord for a naked bulb to dispel the gloom. Bending over to the bottom shelf, the white-haired man takes out the box and lifts its lid. He smiles...