Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interminable weeks, until finally Georgia's Richard Russell was moved to say: "I feel so deeply that national security is involved that I have almost come to the conclusion that I could vote for cloture." It never came close to cloture; indeed, the vote was never in doubt, for the dissidents formed a minuscule if vocal minority. Despite his stereotyped press label as Capitol Hill's "most influential foreign policy expert," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Fulbright had little influence on the outcome...
Self-Accused. Now, six years later, a second jury has voted for acquittal-all because Detective Thibedeau, Polygrapher Holmes and Miami Herald Reporter Gene Miller spent their spare time tracking down evidence that cast deep doubt on his confession. For one thing, Roman Catholic Shea had apparently undergone agonies of guilt after fathering an illegitimate child in the Philippines: "I didn't want to live," he said. Even more important, Detective Gallagher admitted in nine hours on the stand at the second trial that...
...issue-as initiated in the Fulbright hearings and carried forward by Senator Kennedy." Sulzberger wrote: "The Great Debate on Viet Nam policy has been featured by misinformation, passion, political opportunism, vanity, and hints of a smarmy dislike for President Johnson. What has emerged so far is a deep-seated doubt about ourselves and deep-seated ignorance of the world we inhabit. Elegant platitudes founded on myth are offered to the President as substitutes for policy...
...birth control, abortion and venereal disease, have lectured on these subjects with university approval. University officials turned down as "educationally irrelevant" the group's request to show a nudist movie. "I reject the notion that anything goes on this campus," said Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns. "I seriously doubt that this is a violation of anyone's freedom...
...Robert Walpole had appointed a dolt as his Secretary of State, Lady Mary explained: "Oh, if I came suddenly to a great fortune and set up my coach, I should like to show it to the neighbouring village, but I could not carry you with me, for people might doubt whether it was your coach or mine. But if you would let me carry your cat with me, I would; for nobody would think it was the cat's coach...