Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Boyle, presiding jurist of the area in which the accident occurred. By week's end Boyle had not said anything about his intentions. Since Boyle had presided over the proceeding at which Kennedy pleaded guilty, however, the judge could probably be expected to disqualify himself on the question of an inquest...
...procedural difficulties would be resolved-if at all-was impossible to say. The fact is that a full inquiry is long overdue. So far, the lapse in time has served only to open new doubts about what really happened. > The question of the time of the accident has been raised again...
joked at supper than in his own country, an outsider because radical, he had never felt more of an outsider than this weekend, surrounded by radicals who "believed--correct me if I'm wrong--that political protest is a question of stating a problem...
...other offspring of parents with an autistic child are almost invariably normal. Some researchers hope that autism will turn out to be similar to cretinism and phenylketonuria (or P.K.U.)-products of some defective chemistry affecting the nervous system. Meanwhile, a growing number of experts would like to sidestep the question of parental blame and concentrate on teaching autistic children acceptable substitutes for their difficult and harmful behavior. Says Dr. Leon Eisenberg, chief of psychiatry at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital: "Guilt is the most useless commodity available...
What finally redeems Wells for the contemporary reader is the shadow of doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got alight . . . It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty...