Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asleep in the house next door. The bond that binds these people is rarely found among more advanced peoples. Without the use of physical discipline, there is an inherent respect for one's elders, for the sacred privacy of each member of the group, and for the unspoken moral code. Social divisions on the basis of age are uncommon where close friendships often embrace different generations...
...Code of the West. Kearns contends that Johnson's boyhood fear of being a sissy and backing down (which she sees expressed in his Viet Nam policy) reflected the code of the Old West, which shaped his mind, and also various tests for manliness imposed by his father. Johnson talked of his youthful reluctance to shoot animals and how, when hectored by his father, he finally shot a rabbit between the eyes, dropped the carcass at his father's feet, then went to the bathroom and threw up. Later. Kearns points out, L.B.J. would mercilessly badger such visitors...
...idea dates back to the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi that provided public recompense for citizens who had been robbed. That practice did not flourish in the Anglo-Saxon system as governments came to adopt the view that crime is an offense against society; efforts to control it concentrated on punishing the criminal. Now that approach has begun to change. Says Saul Wexler, who handles compensation cases for the Illinois attorney general's office: "The innocent victim often suffers more than the assailant who is sent to prison...
...other states, has no statute defining solicitation of a murder as a felony. Hence prosecutors had to settle for a common-law rule under which it is only a misdemeanor. Maximum penalty: one year and $1,000. The trial is scheduled for Oct. 21. Ironically, a new Florida judicial code effective next July will make solicitation to commit a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison...
Next a group of editors and publishers met in Saigon to protest the press code that has long muzzled South Vietnamese newspapers and magazines. After a long series of unproductive meetings with Information Minister Nha, the editors announced that they would henceforth ignore government restrictions. When three Saigon newspapers published the full text of the Catholic priests' charges against Thieu and his family, about 60 Catholics, Buddhists and journalists marched to prevent police from entering the printing plants. One newspaper proprietor burned 10,000 copies of an edition the police had ordered confiscated while a crowd shouted, "Down with...