Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are several current misconceptions about the testimonial privilege to remain silent. The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. He can be required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime...
...Taft had been running a slight temperature for a month, and he had severe pain in his right hip. After four days in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital, he flew home to Cincinnati and checked in at Holmes Hospital. There, one evening last week, he wrapped a blue robe around his bright yellow pajamas and dictated a speech. The next night, in the brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father...
...professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...
...pictures. He hugged his nurse and hung Tarzanlike from an overhead bed trapeze. He explained away the business at the airport by saying: "I didn't want any one hit by a propeller." The press departed to fill their columns with emotional stories and headlines (TV PHILOSOPHER IN PAIN - JOKES) and sentimental cartoons...
...spouting old Senator Charles W. Tobey found a perfect foil for his histrionic talent last week: Joseph P. Ryan, burly, grumpy "lifetime" president of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Ryan has not only been indicted for misusing $11,390 in union funds, but has been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with...