Word: willfullness
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As a proud and somewhat willful lady, Indira Gandhi smarts under the allegation that she was picked as Prime Minister largely because the Congress Party's political pros reckoned that she would be easy to control. Yet she seemed to confirm that charge two weeks ago when she backed...
The question arose because Mrs. Clark was forced to sue Mr. Clark in order to stake her $50,000 claim against his insurance company. It was a suit the company confidently expected to win. Even though Mrs. Clark had to file her suit in her home state of New Hampshire...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a...
Rusk's arguments, of course, were somewhat more sophisticated than those of John Foster Dulles, who opened each year's anti-admission campaign with a lecture on the unsavory credentials of the few willful men in Peking tyrannizing a nation of millions. Rusk pointed out that the Communist Chinese have...
6,000,000 Visitors. A lake dies of eutrophication, or quite simply over-nourishment. With or without humans, accumulations of sewage draining its way through the earth feeds a lake with nitrate and phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these...