Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifetime of legal practice, the early part of which included a reasonable amount of trial work in the courts, I frequently fretted and fumed at the rules of evidence which would prevent the introduction of some proof tending to establish a fact. But after . . . the testimony ... in the Army-McCarthy hearings, with its self-serving declarations, opinions, conclusions, arguments, hearsay, open incriminations and recriminations, all under the guise of testimony or crossexamination, I will never again complain about the legal rules of evidence as enforced in our courts...
...being chosen Premier (TIME, June 15, 1953)-"To govern is to choose," says Mendès-France. He has argued in speech after speech in the Assembly that only by abandoning some of its commitments can France overcome its immobilisme. "France must limit her objectives, but attain them; establish a policy which is perhaps less ambitious than some would desire, but hold to it. Our aim must not be to give the illusion of grandeur, but to remake a nation whose word will be heard and respected...
...remedies were sharp and uncompromising: he demanded complete independence; he would not tolerate partition -the avowed objective of the French and the British at Geneva; he would not agree to free elections until a much stronger Vietnamese army could establish "an equilibrium of force." After that, he said, "the people can decide...
...task not to produce safe men, in whom our safety can not in any case lie, but to keep alive in young people the desire to dare to seek the truth, to be free, to establish in them a compelling desire to live greatly and magnanimously, and to give them the knowledge and awareness, the faith and the trained facility to get on with...
...testimony to the board, Oppenheimer insisted that he had opposed only a "crash program" of H-bomb production in 1949. Said the board, after digging through documentary evidence: "The board does not believe that Dr. Oppenheimer was entirely candid . . . in attempting to establish this impression. The record reflects that Dr. Oppenheimer [then] expressed his opinion in writing: 'The superbomb should never be produced...