Word: draconian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even if all the above were not true, the massive increase in marijuana use over the last decade in the face of draconian penalties demonstrates the futility of attempting to legislate private behavior. It is time to end this new prohibition...
...Fire on the Moon, ostensibly about the Apollo 11 moon shot, Norman Mailer was really writing about Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Or so he indicated during an interview with Leticia Kent, published in the current Vogue. Hymenopterist Mailer, who has called Wasps "the most Faustian, barbaric, draconian, progress-oriented and root-destroying people on earth," has moved on to "some mysterious and half-spooky conclusions," notably that "the real mission of the Wasp in history was not, say, to create capitalism, or to disseminate Christianity into backward countries." It was to get the U.S. to the moon...
...sense, the draconian sentences expressed the army's pique at the gingerly moves toward liberalization undertaken by Franco's technocrats. Though the verdict was meant to embarrass Franco, he put it to masterful use. Acting swiftly-by tradition, death sentences are executed within twelve hours-Franco first summoned his Cabinet and then the prestigious Council of the Realm. Soon a short announcement from the Pardo Palace told the nation that Franco "has seen fit to commute all the death sentences." The six would still get life, which under Spanish law means a maximum of 30 years...
...there any way that an advanced industrial society can keep from constantly ricocheting between the perils of inflation and unemployment? Some scholars think not, at least not without the most draconian action. John Kenneth Galbraith has become the voice of despair. He insists that, given the power of unions and companies to keep a wage-price spiral going even in a dragging economy, inflation can be curbed only by clamping on permanent wage-price controls...
...former Prime Ministers, friends and aides in his spacious corner office in the Centre Block of Ottawa's solid gray federal complex. As a lifelong defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always been a staunch federalist, with little sympathy for those who place province over union-and less for those separates who want to quit the union altogether. Moreover...