Word: indictibility
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...concerned, not docilely conformist. He poured all his venom into a novel, Kaputt, an account of Nazi atrocities on the Eastern front, and into a later novel, The Skin, describing barbarous conditions under the U.S. occupation of Italy. With a passion akin to Swift's, Malaparte sought to indict the cruelties of mankind. Readers were shocked, as he intended; they were also shocked by the fact that Malaparte seemed to be enjoying the telling of these poisonous tales too much...
...grand jury could not indict anyone for murder, which is a state, not a federal, crime. But the jury could look into violations of the victims' civil rights under federal laws. In secret sessions over two weeks, the jurors summoned some 125 witnesses-including FBI men, Philadelphia Negroes, a bootlegger, a missionary Baptist preacher, Sheriff Rainey and a smirking Cecil Price, who appeared to testify with a card on his coat proclaiming, "Regardless of what you have heard or seen about me, I'm innocent...
Agricultural and chemical interests pointed out that endrin is a notably safe and useful insecticide, and that it was hardly proper to indict the chemical on the evidence of so small a samling. Most of the dead Mississippi fish, PHS critics argued, were menhaden, an almost inedible saltwater inhabitant...
...grand jury in Jackson, Miss., refused Monday to indict Claude L. Weaver '65 on a charge of "strong-arm robbery." Weaver and two other workers for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee were arrested Dec. 26 and held until Jan. 11, when they were released after posting three $1000 bail bonds...
...grand juries customarily indict everyone," Weaver said, "and those who get off the hook do so at arraignment." Weaver said that they were hoping to get the arraignment delayed, "so our lawyers can investigate some more--so he can look into things I can't mention over the phone...