Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demand for the Facts. By itself, Sogno's campaign is probably not enough to inflict mortal wounds on Italian Communism. But it may be a sign of a belatedly turning tide. Dozens of Communists in the Chamber and Senate, accused of various crimes (including the murder of rivals and wholesale robbery during the upheavals of the liberation), are unmolested because the Parliament as a whole has been reluctant to lift their parliamentary immunity: since the war hundreds of judicial requests for action against Communist M.P.s have been blocked. Said an editorial in Il Borghese: "This is the first time...
...internationally respected educator for a half century, Alexander Meiklejohn, now steps forward to deny the soundness of their logic. Mciklejohn, a former teacher of Chafee at Brown University, questions the Constitutional right of committees to vindictively inflict punishment on witnesses and insists that in this climate of repression and usurpation of authority citizens not only have the right but the obligation to maintain testimonial silence as they...
...phrase 'third degree' as employed in this report is used to mean the employment of methods which inflict suffering, physical or mental, upon a person in order to obtain from that person information about a crime...
...good or all bad, but I plead with the press in general, particularly the CRIMSON, to judge him more in the light of each action, as a valid attempt, directed either toward a useful or arbitrary end. Perhaps this will lead to a recognition of his non-attempt to inflict the injury known as "McCarthyism," and the positive attempt at safeguarding democracy, regardless of whether a good is morally acceptable if achieved through invalid means...
Written by John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon describes the attempts of U. S. officers to inflict democracy upon the remote Okinawan village of Tobiki. A young college professor turned army captain, effectively played by John Forsythe, is sent to Tobiki with explicit instructions: he must build a pentagon-shaped school, deliver a lecture series on democracy, and establish a Women's League for Democratic Action. Forsythe is quite natural and convincing in the role...