Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest at Mallinckrodt, although it was an abhorrent kind of civil disobedience, pointed out the University's complicity in war crimes--and the University should serve up a banquet for the prophets in its midst--or the University should file a complaint and have the students put in jail. The watered-down hemlock of disciplinary action is inappropriate. At least the citizens of Athens had the good sense to realize that Socrates was serious. Mary-Claire Stubbs Assistant to the Director of Development Harvard Divinity School...
White-thatched Judge Cox, a native Mississippian and confirmed segregationist, conducted the trial with scrupulous fairness. Reacting angrily to a bomb threat-explosives had been stolen from a Meridian construction company the week before-the judge bundled Price and convicted Defendant Alton Wayne Roberts off to jail without bond. "I'm not going to let any wild man loose on a civilized society," he lectured Roberts. Roberts, a swarthy, former nightclub bouncer, had said earlier that the judge had given a "dynamite charge" to the jury. "Well," Roberts was overheard telling Price, "we've got the dynamite...
...indicate the destructive oppression imposed upon the Greek people. It has been over a half year since the dictatorship came to power under the pretext of a communist threat, and there are no signs of the junta relinquishing any of its control. Thousands of political prisoners remain in jail, and, worse, the entire population is paralyzed with fear. There are no tanks or troops on the streets of Athens; they are not needed...
...people should leave their positions and go down to the access roads but it was decided that it was best to stay. A boy next to me started memorizing the number of a local lawyer. Someone else from behind me said that they wouldn't mind being taken to jail, where it was warm, but she didn't feature getting clubbed...
...melodramatic tone never disappears from Baird's harsh complaints, but it is understandable. This time he might really get thrown to the wolves. So he is scared of the ten year jail sentence, of course, but you can also sense an extra measure of fright and incredulity in his voice, because to his mind, at least, nobody is even watching...