Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...authorities cannot prove their case against the Apalachin group on the basis of its real crimes, it is better to let nineteen guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man. The Court of Appeals has shown both wisdom and courage in restating the principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The law protects the criminal as well as the citizen--and it must continue to do so, even if some clever gangsters must go free in the process...
...report published last Friday, three Harvard officials proposed that the University sponsor a group of about 12 graduates, who would attend an intensive summer training seminar and go to their Nigerian teaching jobs next fall...
Paul Sigmund, instructor in Government and a drafter of the Harvard proposal, has been deluged with questions since the report appeared last Friday. Sigmund predicts that student enthusiasm will lead to a highly selective group, even though the teaching assignments will probably last two years...
...searched his soul and thesaurus long and hard before referring to Lyricist Alan Lerner's succession of therapists as a "pride of analysts." Pride of lions, yes; brace of quail, covey of partridges, indeed; but surely there can be no exact usage other than to refer to a group of my esteemed colleagues as a couch or complex of analysts. The term clutch has been proposed, but is clear evidence of resistance...
...underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha last week, a team of 300 Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps officers worked away in rare interservice harmony -putting together a book. The officers were the members of the Defense Department's new Strategic Target Planning Group, and their book was a bulky, top-secret volume containing data on all important Soviet targets and detailed plans for hitting them in case of all-out nuclear...