Word: indictable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German writer appeals to humanity to condemn the brutal sadism of the Austrians, and they indict, in their righteous anger, the sub-human cruelty of any people who could devise a concentration camp as an instrument of state control...
Burke did not mean that a whole people cannot be morally guilty of crime. . . . What he was driving at was that an indictment can only be charged against a definite person or persons, and is a legal device operating under technical legal restrictions, while a people is ... composed of an unspecific number of indefinite persons, whom it is thus impossible legally to indict...
...growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula that Russia uses to indict Nazis and collaborators. Perhaps Britain believed that Mikolajczyk could still participate in the Lublin Government, thus effecting a compromise between the Polish factions. But Lublin's President Berut and Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski were publicly committed to keeping Mikolajczyk out of their Government...
Hitler set up the Court of Honor to indict the Wehrmacht conspirators, used his People's Court to degrade the indicted by a civilian trial. With a mocking bow to the Army, Hitler named Rundstedt to a seat on the Court of Honor. The plebeian was still using the patrician...
Both Dewey and Warren have been charged with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...