Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treat-in ent or punishment...
...hands, which are tied behind his back in such a way that the stretching of the nerves often causes paralysis of the arms. Says one Uruguayan torture victim: "People on the Hook cannot take a deep breath or hardly any breath. They just moan; it's a dreadful, almost inhuman noise...
...Miller would later do, Miss Hellman said she would answer questions about herself but would refuse to discuss anybody else. In what has become a classic statement, she declared in part: "To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." The experience of Miss Hellman--herself one of the small handful of American playwrights in Miller's class--may well have spurred Miller to finish The Crucible. (One famous playwright...
...given the abstruse and archaic state of medicine in France before the Revolution, Itard achieved a minor miracle in teaching Victor at all. The foremost doctors of the day were quick to declare Victor a congenital idiot and asked to banks him to the inhuman, rat-infested cubicles which served as the asylums of Paris. "He's not deaf and dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods...
...understand power, the mechanism by which men or women feel themselves invested or become invested with the right to rule over others and punish them if they do not obey. Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president...I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon." As a journalist and writer, you wield a very real power, and I think you understand that...