Word: uprightness
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...Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice Sir Samuel Lowry Porter...
...habitual procedure of stepping out on the Presidential Palace balcony with the incoming chief executive to take the cheers of the crowd, kept Batista far in the background. Hopefully said President Gómez: "Force alone is precarious if it is not animated and authorized by reason and justice. . . . Upright courts . . . shall have sole powers to decide upon the life, the liberty, the honor and properties of persons...
...cause of the active hatred that he has aroused may be the ill-timed smile which accompanies his caustic criticisms of the motives and morals of men who consider themselves upright citizens. Or it may be that loose talk of reform and reorganization of society has deprived a class of U. S. citizens, who had some social security, of their feeling of security. However it has been-while business has profited well under the New Deal and the President's steps have done little physical damage to anyone-somehow, since the summer of 1934 when Louis Howe...
...year for another feudist, shared his last meal with the prison cat. Then attendants lifted his bullet-ridden, paralyzed body, clad in a pair of white pajamas, on a stretcher, carried it into the tented prison yard, toted it up 13 steps to the gallows. There they held him upright, half comatose...
...mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas...