Word: dishonored
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...Very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment inflicts upon the sufferer." Yet the American prison system--a design to reform criminals by caging humans--has found a permanent place in American society, despite its protracted record of futility, dishonor, and inhumanity...
...Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking down and correct expression is considered almost a badge of dishonor." Deterioration thus stems from large changes the country underwent in the '60s: the rise of the environment issue; the new assertion of demands by minority groups; the generation gap; the rise of television...
...didn't know anything about the death penalty. I didn't believe that they would give it to a black man for killing another black man." Fowler has maintained a certain fatalistic nonchalance through his 14-month confinement. He wears a cap with the motto "Death Before Dishonor," and refuses cigarettes because "Smoking is hazardous to my health...
...arguments over how to deal with the war resisters have long ranged, in the President's words, from amnesty to revenge. Organizations like the V.F.W., the Marine Corps League and the Non-Commissioned Officers Association have insisted that any form of amnesty would dishonor the 2.5 million men who served in Viet Nam, and would mock the sacrifice of the 55,000 who died there. Advocates of forgiveness have argued that on 34 occasions in U.S. history the Government has granted amnesty to some of its citizens, and should do so again in the case of a war that...
...about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards on which the play's moralists finally rest their morality. Isabel cries, for example, that death is "cheaper" than dishonor...