Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifth Amendment serves as an effective barrier against inquisitorial practices. American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions. Law enforcement agencies should be encouraged to gather independent evidence by exercising an appropriate degree of resourcefulness and industry. One should always feel uneasiness when people are penalized for exercising a privilege which a venerated provision of the Constitution affords them...
...privilege against self-incrimination in the Fifth Amendment is just as much a part of the Constitution as the provisions prescribing how members of Congress shall be chosen. If every person who utilized those provisions of the Constitution by becoming a candidate for Congress were to be subjected to penalties such as loss of employment, public ignominy, refusal of a passport, and similar disabilities, the unsoundness of such a policy would be obvious to all. Yet public opinion is apparently willing to tolerate legislation and practices inflicting those consequences upon persons who similarly utilize another portion of the Constitution. This...
...made honorary citizens of Hiroshima. In a letter to the U.S. consul general in Kobe, the mayor of the city, the governor of the prefecture and the president of the university asked that Fotouhi be kept on at least two more years. "He has done more than any other person could ever have done," they wrote, "in the interest of the better and fuller understanding between our two great nations...
Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...
...give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh ("Escargots? I thought they were snails"); the Washington party at which the offstage "voice" of Harry Truman sounded like Tennessee Ernie Ford. At show's end Perle Mesta presided in person over the teavee, pouring on more whipped cream about her good works with foreign students ("This is the kind of hostess I like being best...