Word: guilt
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Mansfield adds that Keyes' identity as an African-American "probably gave him greater disgust for liberalism than otherwise might have been the case. The attitude of the liberals towards blacks was dominated by their sense of guilt and not by any careful consideration of what was good either for blacks or for America, and that's probably still the case...
...evil cipher, and the proceedings have not been the talk of lunchrooms across America. "Some people follow it," says Everett White, 55, of Pueblo, Colo. "You see it in the papers, but it's not like that other one, with...what's his name?" As for McVeigh's guilt, says Mark Collins, city manager of Gunnison, Colo.: "Jeez, you think there's a question there...
...neutral country surrounded throughout the war by Axis regimes. On what grounds should it have refused? The report, Cotti said, "is lacking a measured recognition of the extremely difficult situation in which our country found itself militarily and in supply terms." Given Switzerland's neutrality, the central question of guilt centers on what, if anything, Swiss bankers knew about the origins of the gold. The study reports conclusive proof that gold taken from concentration camp victims was mixed with plundered bank gold and resmelted into bars that were accepted, perhaps too readily, by neutral countries such as Switzerland...
...days of religious exclusion, when ambitious Jews had to congregate in those few institutions that were open to them. And while it used to be virtually unthinkable for a Jew--even a secular Jew--to marry a non-Jew, today, such parental pressure (and the resulting guilt and inmarriage) is abating...
...resulted in convictions--which are being appealed. Of these, it is the case of Mohammad Salameh and three other defendants that has come in for scrutiny. The Bromwich report castigated Williams, then a top explosives examiner, who managed the on-site investigation, saying he "began with a presumption of guilt upon which to build inferences." It excoriated him for offering his opinion that the bomb had consisted of urea nitrate, when no intact urea-nitrate crystals were found at the scene. The report stated that Williams "tailored" his testimony to fit facts determined by the investigation...