Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straight. The second group, deeply interested in economic growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military in Brazil-and is unhappy with what it considers a more lenient posture by Costa e Silva. The old marshal therefore declared himself to be "a companion in arms" who "not even for one day forgets his loved days in the Brazilian army. The tranquillity and the order of this country are our responsibility...
...chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...
...movement's founders and gurus, including Hoffman, chose to form a political link with the ideological New Left. The result was the Youth International Party (YIP), which was founded at least partly in hopes of converting the angrily activist Students for a Democratic Society to a more lenient and joyful concept of revolution...
Geoffrey P. Hellman, GSAS, suggested that Administration policy might be to build up a fear of major punishment and then "take a lot of wind out of our action" by being more lenient. "The overall effect would be at least as bad in terms of intimidation," he said...
Only about 13 or 14 of the 89 communist parties approved the invasion of Prague; the major communist parties in France. Italy and China opposed it, Forbath said. This disapproval, he said, made the Soviets use force as a last resort and also made them more lenient in their post-invasion tactics...