Word: guilts
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...killed by the Bomb are annually commemorated this way in Japan, where floating paper lanterns are a symbol of dead souls. Similar lights bobbed along dozens of other U.S. waterways last week. Said Cameron Gundersen, a pediatrician in La Crosse: "The purpose of this commemoration is not to assign guilt or linger among the images of death but to remind ourselves of what we are capable of doing. We are capable of destroying the world's civilization. More important, we are capable of preventing that...
...country music, much of it from some fairly strange countries. This flow of funk is interrupted by loopy commercials for the Deep Valley Bed, the kind with the old-time mattress that sags in the middle, making prolonged marital discord impossible; Bertha's Kitty Boutique, where doting and guilt-ridden cat owners can find, among other cossets, a special cat ice cream called Gatto Gelato to cool kitty's tongue on hot days; and, of course, the celebrated Powdermilk Biscuits ("Heavens, they're tasty!"), which "give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done...
...like a hotel,” he says with nostalgia, before adding, with more than a little patrician guilt, “I’m sure that those women made next to nothing...
Throughout the 13-month trial, the 15 Israeli defendants had worn self-assured smiles. The men described themselves as defenders of Jewish rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although many of them admitted their guilt, they seemed confident that they would be acquitted by an Israeli court. The crimes of which they stood accused, they declared, had been committed in response to terrorist acts by Arabs. But last week, when a three-judge panel found the 15 guilty on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to conspiracy and possession of arms, their certainty gave way to shock...
...people believe that a nuclear deterrent is the way to go. For that reason we get satisfaction from our work by contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been different...