Word: imprisoning
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Reed told Judge Andrew A. Caffrey that the judge had no moral right to imprison him for refusing to cooperate with the draft laws. Reed then said that he would not leave the courtroom and started to stage a sitdown...
...most Westerners, the Berlin Wall is a brutal monument to Communism's need to imprison its subjects. Not to Walter Ulbricht. Last week East Germany's Red boss, after studiously ignoring the first four anniversaries of the ugly barrier that divides the city, openly celebrated its fifth birthday with a speech that made one wonder why he had not erected it years before. The Wall, orated Ulbricht, had 1) "saved the peace"; 2) proved the West "impotent"; 3) signified, by its unopposed erection, Allied recognition of the German status quo; 4) established "law and order" in East Germany...
...there was a strong American bias toward giving authority to "the man in the field," undercutting attempts to create a highly-centralized strategy. Finally, America had traditionally regarded the aggressive use of force as criminal or insane, to be countered with a "crusade" to destroy the out-law and imprison the sick...
...emissary collected a pinch of earth, a withered flower, and in a small bottle took a sample of air from the graveside. He then returned to Haiti, where he delivered the items to Duvalier. "Papa Doc," as Duvalier calls himself, wanted them for a voodoo incantation, hoping to imprison Kennedy's soul, make it subject to his will, and thus influence the U.S. State Department's decisions regarding Haiti...
...state it simply, this school has an irresistible tendency to imprison and confuse the mind within a stralt-jacket of fashionable jargon. If traditional learning (which Mr. Horne evidently loathes) confuses less than it enlightens, why should it not be continued, nay, expanded? Cheng-Telk...