Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching of history which degenerates to this point will bear quite as heavy a burden of guilt in failing to prepare new generations for the future as did that before 1914. We shall have still more generations whose efforts to rebuild society may be compared to an attempt at scientific study of the English language without a knowledge of Latin ... rootless...
...Penmark becomes fully aware of her daughter's character. Before she can bring herself to act, Rhoda burns alive the sleeping handyman who has guessed her part in the drowning. What her mother learns about her own share in Rhoda's guilt, what she does about it and how Rhoda makes out are non-cricket revelations. But The Bad Seed cannot be put aside without lingering shivers...
Scents of Guilt. In Kansas City, Mo., the circuit court reversed a drunken-driving conviction which had cost Frank J. Ross a 60-day license suspension and a $100 fine after he explained that he had not been drinking, had merely been eating aromatic Italian cookies...
After 7½ hours of wrangling, the Israelis demanded a formal condemnation of Jordan. The deciding vote of the five on the Mixed Armistice Commission was Commander Hutchison's. "I abstain," he said slowly. The investigators for MAC, added Hutchison, "worked almost beyond endurance to establish the guilt. Even so, the evidence is far from conclusive." The Israelis rose, announced that they would no longer participate in the commission and stalked...
...required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly, this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...