Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to ascertain whether any of us had been stricken down yet. I began to think it might be safer to avoid them...
...ascertain which current techniques of counseling and prevention are most effective, to develop new ones and delve into the still uncertain patterns and multiple causes of homosexuality, the task force recommends establishment of a major U.S. center for the study of sexuality-from sex patterns in animals to all kinds of normal and abnormal human sexual behavior. Too often in the past, it says, competent researchers have been discouraged from entering the field by the taboos that surround it-and by the difficulties of obtaining research funds. Other key points: teachers and youth-group counselors should be better informed about...
...much more repressive if terrorists blew up buildings. The point of that criticism must be that this repression would hurt those who are not responsible. It is up to those who act to judge the consequences to themselves. It is up to others in the movement to try to ascertain the consequences for the rest. I think, though, that I could almost argue the opposite. The Weatherman attack on the CFIA made the subsequent Guided Tour much more palatable. When blacks burnt down stores in ghettoes, they legitimized bus boycotts and sit-ins. Blowing up buildings would make...
...Association, whose member drug firms help support AMPAC and spend huge sums on advertising in the Journal. By law, the A.M.A.'s political funding committee must be separate from its lobbying operation; in practice, however, the division is strictly a bookkeeping procedure. It is virtually impossible, moreover, to ascertain which candidate receives exactly how much from AMPAC. Following the letter of the law, the A.M.A. reports simply that it has sent a flat amount to a state chapter. Individual members are told not to contribute more than $99 to the A.M.A. national fund, thereby excluding themselves from the federal...
...Congress," he said, "unconstitutionally discriminated against atheists, agnostics and men like Sisson who, whether they be religious or not, are motivated by profound moral beliefs which constitute the central convictions of their beings." To critics who argue that the sincerity of such a personal code is too hard to ascertain, Wyzanski tartly replied, "Often it is harder to detect a fraudulent adherent to a religious creed than to recognize a sincere moral protestant. We can all discern Thoreau's integrity more quickly than we might detect some churchman's hypocrisy. The suggestion that courts cannot tell a sincere...