Word: objectionably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The American system, as the petition points out, should be flexible enough to accommodate these dictates of conscience within the framework of the law. Individuals should not have to oppose all war -- on the grounds of conscientious objection -- to be excused from fighting. If their objection to a particular conflict...
Price discussed and rejected the idea of extending conscientious objection to individual wars. "If you believe that some wars are necessary and justified -- wars to stop aggression, for example -- but that this particular war is a mistake of such an order that you cannot in good conscience fight in it...
The lone dissenter,* Justice Stewart, surprisingly made no mention of the possibility that countless minors now in custody may well be entitled to quick release. He did argue, however, that the court was inviting "a long step backward into the 19th century," an era when "there were no juvenile proceedings...
Along with these justifications for our request for an increased rate of compensation, we should at least make some attempt to answer beforehand the most obvious objection that can be made to any such request: That Harvard simply cannot afford it.
On the bench, Johnson perched half-moon spectacles on his patrician nose; his brown eyes scanned a document in the Conner case. He peered up from under bushy brows; a hush fell. The room was jammed with veniremen: Negroes as well as whites, women as well as men-a Johnson...