Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of moral right over political expediency. Asked about Benson's prospects at his press conference, Ike said: "He is honest in his great effort to find proper, reasonable, sensible programs. When we find a man of this dedication, this kind of courage, this kind of intellectual and personal honesty, we should say to ourselves, 'We just don't believe that America has come to the point where it wants to dispense with the services of that kind of a person...
Without the Indonesian people I'd be nothing but an ordinary person. It's only in the name of the people that I am an occupant of palaces at Merdeka and Negara, Bogor and Tjirpani...
...Person or Persons. Satisfied that the oil slick was not rebel sabotage, the authorities placed all the blame for the accident on Driver Cifuentes, who was barely alive in a hospital. He was charged with manslaughter. Criminal charges were also filed against the "person or persons unknown" who kidnaped Fangio. No one found it worthwhile to criticize the "person or persons who" permitted the crowd to line the trackside, i.e., the National Sports Commission, headed by Brigadier General Roberto Fernandez Miranda, who is President Batista's brother...
...defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where...
...fear of a threat to his personal security is at the root of every person's violence and hatreds. Evil is merely a sickness-a psychic distortion. Education has to be revamped so as to cope with a student's basic psychic problems, and not merely teach him trigonometry or Latin. These problems begin early and if caught in time can be corrected-but not after they explode in violence. Then it is too late. Evil matured is hard to cure...