Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers might have expected, the protection which the court now has provided the witness is not based on any explicit constitutional provision. The court has not, in other words, extended the scope of the privilege against self-incrimination or expanded the concept of free speech. It has simply held that the recalcitrant witness may not be convicted of contempt when the government fails to establish affirmatively that the question which he failed to answer was "pertinent to the question under inquiry." In the Bowers case the application of this principle meant that a defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could...
...less importance than the court's insistence that the government, in the contempt proceedings, has the burden of proving pertinence, is the explicit statement that the witness's failure to assign lack of pertinence as his reason for refusing to answer the questions did not bar him from raising that issue in the contempt proceedings. "The answer to such a suggestion," said the court, "is that the right to refuse to answer a question which is not pertinent is not a personal privilege, such as the right to refrain from self-crimination, which is waived if not seasonably asserted...
Siqueiros' latest mural, painted in the rounded corner of a new hospital, is more explicit: an injured worker under the rays of a health-giving sun. Siqueiros' effects are sometimes not much subtler than a punch in the eye. But as long as exico's artists can keep delivering such knockouts, the Mexican government is likely to keep right on paying for them...
...House members. Since there are always more women running about on Saturdays, and therefore the threat of disturbance is greater, this argument logically requires more stringency on that day. Presumably, then, by liberalizing Saturday rules the deans are junking this line of thought. This has not been made explicit, though, and our misgivings will remain until...
...first published paper, based on his observation of what various birds did in the rain. Some birds, he noted, sang, some shut up, some flew for shelter, some danced in the sky. This early ornithology foreshadowed the two main drives of his life-love of nature and passion for explicit details...