Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inherent in secret and dictatorial government. I for one looked hopefully but vainly ... for a pledge that the last execution had taken place on Soviet soil. I looked for a pledge of civil rights, for the sacred right of habeas corpus, of public appeal to higher courts, of final judgment by one's peers. Instead I learned that three more executions had been announced from the Soviet Union, and my stomach turned over...
...will have to be fundamentally different from the one Stalin followed in [the later] period of his life." Outside the Soviet Union "the internal political structure of the world Communist movement has changed," and now there comes out clearly "the necessity and desire for a steadily growing autonomy of judgment...
Most businessmen at the symposium agreed with Dr. Schmidt's judgment that the year's "readjustments are, for the most part, behind us." Construction seems likely to top the record $44 billion mark forecast earlier this year by the U.S. Government. Steel production in May soared over the 10 million-ton mark for the eighth straight month. While home building trailed last year's record level by 17% in 1956's first five months, largely because of the credit pinch, the Administration hinted last week that easier mortgage money is on the way. Auto dealers throughout...
...rushed to the stable, began to investigate to find out the why. The reason was plain. To finance some of his corporate purchases, Albert had borrowed heavily from South Bend, Ind.'s Associates Discount Corp. When Albert fell a year behind in his payments, the Discount Corp. took judgment a fortnight ago on $1,372,622 in Albert loans, tying up his personal bank accounts. When word got out that Albert could not pay his bills...
...Joseph, on a pilgrimage as painful as that of the black pastor in Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, had made his pitiful trek to discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged him. His sentence: he dooms the whites to his own company, and still using the language of the "good" (i.e., subservient) Kaffir, moves into the ruined house...