Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courts have refused to find witnesses guilty of contempt of the 'Kefauver committee' when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee was investigating. A sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates is not an excuse: the Fifth Amendment grants no privilege to protect one's friends. If a man feels that he has a persona code compelling this reticence, he must pay for his scrupple by standing the punishment society prescribe...
...little Communist activity today in educational institutions. But more important, the use of the Fifth Amendment is in our view entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth. It is no excuse that the primary purpose of its use is to protect one's friends, or to express one's feelings that Congressional committees are by-passing the Constitutional safeguards of due process of law, or to avert a danger of prosecution for perjury in case one's testimony should later be contradicted by the false testimony of others. Furthermore, since...
...fishing for bass" as his outdoor hobby. But his outdoor interests have become less, not more sedentary over the years, in remarkable contrast to old clubhouse dictum ("when thou become forty, thou shalt play nothing but golf"). A couple of years ago, he took up ski racing, careful to protect himself with short or "goon" skis. "I used to ski on the long ones, but I was breaking my ankles. Haven't been injured since I took up the goons." Basketball is his winter indoor sport, usually pursued on a team with prominent members of the Class of '27 whom...
...children, "as far as he knew," would be no worse off than they were before. It seemed like a threat. But in the end, Georgescu decided that the only honorable hope was a desperate one-spread the story of Zambeti's infamous proposal and hope public opinion would protect the boys...
...Archbishop laid in her hands the Sovereign's Sword-to "do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God . . . restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order." The Queen took the Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God. Turning, she stole a glance at the royal gallery, where her 4-year-old son Prince Charles, in a white silk suit, watched enraptured. She paused and returned to the chair...