Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most TV-set owners end a long stretch of daytime televiewing with an obscure sense of guilt, as if they had sneaked off to a movie in the middle of a business day. But last week, as millions sat glued to the telecasts of the Manhattan hearings of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, televiewing was for once accompanied by a glowing sense of civic purpose...
...Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo. Smilingly he offered two choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan Peron's "pardon," they walked out into the daylight of Buenos Aires...
...said that "this gracious old gentleman may be entirely innocent of formal guilt, but he remains a gullible wool-gatherer." The clergyman also referred to Mather as "naive," and claimed that a man is known "by the folks with whom he travels...
...packed with townspeople fleeing the unknown invaders, while soldiers wait in vain for orders, seeing their officers desert. Among the soldiers is Mathieu, ex-teacher of philosophy; while his companions try to hold a cracking world together with plans for new life, Mathieu is absorbed in tracing their personal guilt in the collapse...
...remorseful. That part of the story was grimly familiar, too. Said Prosecutor Hogan, whose men had been working on the case for seven weeks: "I fervently wish that any person who might be so tempted could have seen these stupid and dishonest young men as they admitted their guilt. Tears, remorse, self-reproach and scalding thoughts of the perpetual heartache and disgrace ... all of this was too late...