Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informs you that your entire family was destroyed in a mining accident, and then stays by your side smilingly, refusing to leave until you tell him that it is "O.K." But striving to maintain at least a shared of dignity, you refuse to tell the Mac that its deed of pure evil...
...movie theaters, this illegal shooting usually gets a big hand. Righteous vengeance. Good guy kills bad guy. It is the kind of movie catharsis that may make Platoon a megahit. But can Chris or the audience take moral satisfaction in this deed? Which "father" has he followed? Has Chris become like Elias, back from the grave to avenge his own murder? "You have to fight evil if you are going to be a good man," Stone says. "That's why Chris killed Barnes. Because Barnes deserved killing." Or has he emulated his enemy? Has he become Barnes in order...
That radical shake-up also succeeded in soothing, for the moment, some of the restiveness of the 250,000 men of the army. General Ramos, the head of the armed services, has declared himself repeatedly, in word and deed, to be fully behind the President. Nevertheless, as many as 6,000 young officers in the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), outraged at Enrile's ouster, may yet make trouble...
...them is the under-reported reality that our own Central Intelligence Agency is operating in direct violation of international and domestic law. And furthermore, in a nation such as ours which has historically repected such values as foreign nations' rights to self-determination--in word, of not always in deed--and our own commitment to truth in government and the use of violence only as a final resort, the CIA presents a serious and flagrant challenge...
...disruption of an alumni dinner at the 350th celebration this fall, the University has drawn criticism--from both supporters and opponents--for its ambiguous response to demonstrators. Harvard administrators have tried whenever possible to minimize dissent instead of risking publicity by confronting it either in word or in deed. But by avoiding confrontation the University has subverted the role and purpose of civilly disobedient protest...