Word: incur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adulterers in Connecticut run a risk of five-year jail terms, but in Kentucky can incur no heavier legal penalty than a $50 fine. Nevada does not even consider adultery a crime. Because of such disparities and contradictions. Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ploscowe, expert on U.S. criminal codes and a former New York City magistrate, argues for a major overhaul of U.S. sex laws in the current Duke University law review. Says he: "American men and women are continually upon the move. They should not be exposed to the risk of being branded felons in one state for sexual behavior that...
...women of whatever rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wood (rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors...
...wise (for instance, she knows that as miners get silicosis. matadors are gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures of speech. "While it dipped its pen in its readers' blood." he preaches, "the newspaper industry mumbled on about its sacred right, freedom...