Word: abets
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...least bit ashamed of anything I have done or though. But to give information is to aid and abet a political trend which has the characteristic of a national inquisition and which is repugnant to the spirit of the Fifth Amendment. The practical effect of such a trend is to make freedom of speech and association subject to the approval, or surveillance at least, of a group with a narrow set of ideas," Lubell said...
After Arta's funeral last week, cops arrested Christiansen under a state law that makes it a felony to abet a suicide. But a California court had declared such a law unconstitutional. There is no California law against suicide itself. Asked Deputy District Attorney Ted C. Sten: "How can a person be guilty of a felony as the result of aiding and abetting a deed which is not contrary...
...take from us the freedom we cherish. But we have a democratic procedure for dealing with subversion through our courts and through legislative enactments. It cannot be our policy to allow government by the mob, government by the whim and caprice of segments of our population. Professors who abet such extra-legal procedures act with no more responsibility than lynch mobs or demagogues. If the Lubells have acted injudiciously they must be handled by the properly constituted bodies of our government...
...most cases and on most campuses girl students seemed to welcome and even abet them. Georgetown University, a Catholic men's college in Washington, B.C., was invaded, in fact, by an automobile caravan of squealing females. Scores of students poured out after them before faculty members stepped in and sent both forces into sheepish retreat...
Under the Mississippi act, a subversive organization is one "which engages in or advocates, abets, advises, or teaches, or a purpose of which is to engage in or advocate, abet, advise, or teach activitie intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction, or alteration of the constitutional form of government of the United States, or of the State of Mississippi ... and to establish in place thereof any form of government the direction and control of which is to be vested in ... the domination or control of any foreign government, organization, or individual; but does...