Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often face social punishment as onerous as any jail sentence. The great bulk of American opinion lies between these two extremes. It is confused about the existence and extent of any Internal conspiracy, but sick and tired of hearing witnesses say: "I refuse to answer because my answer may tend to incriminate...
...annually on bonds held by its own agencies), and 2) it counts as income the excess of receipts over outlays for Government obligations such as social security. Because of these differences, the red ink is less in the cash budget than in the administrative budget-which is why politicos tend to slur over their deficits in the administrative budget and talk instead about the cash budget...
...Court decided that her refusal to answer was legal, a stream of Communists and people with Communist associations have faced down courts, grand juries and congressional committees with what Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. calls "those 14 magic words": "I refuse to answer upon the ground that it might tend to incriminate...
...cited as an example the following exchange: "Have you over traitorously sold information to an enemy nation, the sale of which might result in the enslavement of the United States?" and the teacher answers, 'I refuse to answer that question because if I told the truth my answer might tend to make me a criminal...
...greatest problems of heart surgery have cemented the relationship between surgeons and anesthesiologists so that now they tend to work more closely in many other types of cases. Dr. Sadove, who spent four wartime years in U.S. Army hospitals in England, likes to use a military metaphor: "The small-arms fire of the anesthesiologist joins the spy system of the lab to back up the surgeon's big artillery in a coordinated attack to conquer disease...