Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With so many problems flowing together, the nation was battered by a flood tide of frustration and anxiety. A doubt that in the past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is the U.S., after all, as fallible in its aims and unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments...
...street robberies up 27%, bank robberies 60% and murders 16%. Washington was close to the top, with murders increasing by 19%, rapes 24% and robberies 64%. Three-Hour Questioning. Granted that the statistics result partly from more efficient police detection and more careful reporting of crimes, there is no doubt the U.S. rate is climbing or that the President puts a high priority on doing something about it, particularly in Washington. Last week, the President signed a tough District of Columbia anticrime bill, which is only some what softer than a measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds...
Delinquent, Without Doubt...
...Guilty beyond reasonable doubt." That cornerstone tenet of U.S. criminal justice has safeguarded many an innocent man-but rarely an innocent boy. In most states, whether a child is adjudged delinquent depends on the way the "preponderance of evidence" strikes the judge handling the case. In other words, if the child seems slightly more guilty than not, the judge can order him sent to a training school. The reason : juvenile courts were originally conceived as places where children would be helped, not punished. But the practice has not lived up to the theory. Now, in the wake...
...week quarantine period, the astronauts and a dozen doctors, engineers, technicians and a cook will live in the lab's sealed quarters-including bedrooms, a kitchen stocked with frozen food, a small gym, and medical quarters with even a small operating room. But the astronauts will have no doubt that they are home: for crew-quarters decor, NASA has chosen Early American-style furniture by Sears, Roebuck...