Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates." Only if the witness "was subjecting himself to some degree of danger of a criminal offense" would his reticence be justified.S-1
...legislature, is charged with laying down broad principles based on the narrow facts of particular cases. And as Mr. Justice Holmes put it, "Hard cases make bad law." Last week they made confusing law in the court's flurry of reapportionment decisions (see THE NATION), and in its silent refusal to review a crucial California case involving the inadmissibility of voluntary confessions-currently the most confusing issue in U.S. criminal...
...schism" was a spirit of disobedience toward the council's decrees rather than a formal split. Nonetheless, church observers believe that he would not have spoken out without the advice and consent of other bishops, and some French conservatives argue that the church is already suffering from a "silent schism" of Catholics who are "walking out on their tiptoes, leaving the church forever." The bishops face a touchy task of reconciliation in a land where those people who are serious about their faith are very serious indeed...
...Silent Fuming. Martin said much more - notably, that there are major differences as well as similarities be tween the economies of 1929 and 1965 - but the rest was all but ignored in the furor that followed. The stock mar ket, uncertain and sliding for several weeks, plunged sharply: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 19 points in the three days after Martin's speech, dipped briefly below the psychologically im portant 900 mark, then closed the week at 900.87. Congressional leaders called for an investigation of the state of free-world economies. Lyndon Johnson at first fumed silently...
Over the years, Swiss bankers have striven to create an image of them selves as the Alps of finance - solid, silent and snowy white. The effort has been successful. To the anonymous sanc tuary of their numbered accounts, the bankers have attracted nervous money from the world's teetering tyrants and the merely discreet rich. Swiss banks yearly draw more than $500 million in foreign capital, earn almost as much as the tourist industry. Lately, how ever, the reputation of the Swiss bank ers has become somewhat tarnished...