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Word: disproportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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It took the final U.S. entry, M.A.S.H., to clear away the nasty aftertaste of commercialized commitment. Oddly enough, this was the one protest film based on the uses of bad taste-an insanely funny movie expressing the moral disproportion between war and lesser evils by showing the reality of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Revolution on the Riviera | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

Once caught, black suspects are more likely than whites to be jailed rather than bailed, more likely to be convicted than acquitted, and more likely to receive stiff sentences. Of the 479 condemned men now on death row in U.S. prisons, more than half are black. According to many experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Situation Report: The Law | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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