Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need of defenders because of the motives for which it has been invoked on many occasions in recent times. This may have given a widespread impression that the principal effect of the Fifth is to stand between wrongdoers and their just punishment. But the courts have made it plain that the Fifth Amendment cannot successfully be invoked merely because social discredit and persecution may be the consequence of testimony. That is why Prof. Edward S. Corwin was able to make the following statement of fact in his annotations of the Constitution: "The privilege exists solely for the protection...
...France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'Express Editor Servan-Schreiber, who had served as a lieutenant in his command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful...
Only ten years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished...
Last week, before a meeting of army and navy trainees in Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov stated the Russian position in equally plain terms. The roles were reversed but the meaning was the same...
Harding had scarcely put foot to ground before he was making his points plain. The "terrorists" had suffered "heavy losses," which had "obviously" affected their morale, he told airport reporters. Said Harding dourly: "Take note of the fact the word used is suspend, not cease, operations. I think you should also want to have regard, when you consider any truce offer, to the status and reputation of the man who made...