Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have read your statement in regard to the exoneration of three professors at Harvard, one of whom you claim was guilty of grave misconduct, and the other two of misconduct...
...like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake." Little wonder, then, that Capitol Hill was startled this year when Bulldozer Capehart proposed that Congress give the President power to freeze wages, prices and rents for 90 days in case of a "grave national emergency...
...this instance we Republicans have a responsibility. We have a Republican President, and we control both houses of Congress. If during our tenure of office a grave emergency strikes, we, and we alone, will have to deal with it."Political responsibility has changed Capehart in many ways. In his new role as a committee chairman and top-ranking member of the Senate majority, he works harder (twelve to 15 hours a day; 3,000 letters a week), but he is more relaxed and his desk is neater-it is arranged in well-defined piles, not in the huge, disorderly mounds...
...unconvincing. If it had simply made teaching and student relations its sole standard, this lameness and weaseling would never have been necessary. This is not just a question of public relations; a decision based on such equivocation is close to being no decision at all. Furry's action was grave misconduct, but his retention should have been for clear-cut academic reasons, not vaguaries...
...second reason for questioning the Corporation's policy is its concept of simple, as opposed to grave, misconduct. According to this, use of the Fifth Amendment is misconduct, whether for protecting one's friends, protesting the committees' methods, or out of fear that the false testimony of others will lead to his indictment for perjury. While the cause of education would best be served by full and frank testimony before committees, and we wish all called would agree, this does not mean that a man should not protect himself from the viciousness of professional liars as they are presently used...