Word: informs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that someone is a law defying. citizen does not mean that he could therefore not at the same time be the best of fathers, the most perfect of gentlemen, or the most outstanding scholar. The great newspaperman is not the one who divulges before Court the identify of his inform auis but the one who rather goes to jail in defense of the superior principles of his profession. The good priest is not the one who betrays the confidence entrusted to him in confession as his "duty to collaborate with government" would prescribe, but the one who following the superior...
...inform the potential applicants in far away communities about Harvard College is one of the urgent tasks that lie ahead. Whether this can be done with the cooperation of alumni groups without turning the whole effort into a vast recruitment campaign for football players may be doubted by some cynics. But knowing something of the spirit of the Harvard graduates and their scale of values. I have confidence that it will be done ... in no single matter can the alumni of the Eastern colleges perform a greater service for their own institutions and for the future of higher education than...
...this mean and unworthy thing' (to inform) which investigators are now trying to force citizens to do, in the name of Americanism. The only sure way to evade this dirty question is to remain silent throughout the whole hearing, through claiming a privilege against self-incrimination regardless of the very damaging effect of such a claim on a person's career." Chafee, Thirty-Five Years with Freedom of Speech 27-28 (1952). (bold-face added...
...until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...
Back in Moscow, Mark Surov is assigned a minor Kremlin post. His heart has turned away from the inhuman regime, but what to do next he does not know. The great purges are beginning; fear floods the city. When Mark invites friends to a party, he must inform the NKVD so that it can send an extra guest...