Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson for scheduling a trip to South America this week, when "our fundamental supply lines are about to be threatened by a strike." And two Republican Senators, New York's Jacob Javits and California's Thomas H. Kuchel, proposed a bill that would allow the Government to seek through the courts authority to keep struck industries operating in order "to protect the public health and safety...
...school children. The majority chose the "bourgeois" hero Robin Hood over both Marx and Lenin when responding to questions concerning figures perceived as heroic types. When asked why, the children cited the qualities of bravery, honesty, and loyalty--not the most important of the behavior traits which communist regimes seek to instill in its young citizens. Only 9.5 percent of the school children chose "heroes of the workers' movement" as their ideal. Interestingly, the results of a poll in Poland conducted among students at the Cracow Metallurgy and Mining Academy showed a majority choosing John F. Kennedy as their idol...
Reasonable Doubt. Rejection is only part of the process. Lawyers exploit voir dire as their only chance to make friends with individual jurors. They joke, flatter, hatch homilies and seek what Manhattan's Stanley Reiben calls "transference of identity." All the while, the defense attorney struggles to get across the law's presumption that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As Houston's Walter F. Walsh points out: "Many jurors will not and cannot, within the confines of conscience, find a defendant not guilty just because there...
Death Verdict? To greater or lesser extent, all of these factors weighed in the Speck voir dire. For his part, State's Attorney William Martin, 30, took a cool approach. "Where the crime speaks for itself," he said, "it is not for us to seek the sympathy of the jurors." Though he was searching for the relatives of policemen, nurses and young girls, Martin mainly focused on reactions to the most important question: "Do you have any conscientious or religious objections to the death penalty...
...they are more and more ready to adopt the methods of Western capitalism, the development-minded countries of Communist Europe are actually following Yugoslavia's lead. Yugoslavia was first to slacken party control of industry, first to bow to the efficiencies of the profit system, first actively to seek competition in world markets. Now it is first in the Bloc again-this time with a hard-sell invitation to Western capital to set up shop in conjunction with state-owned Yugoslavian firms...