Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he is hardly the sort of President the law was designed to protect, De Gaulle in nine years has used it no fewer than 350 times as a powerful weapon against his critics. The penalty for violating the law can run as high as a $20,000 fine, a year in prison and loss of the right to vote. Government prosecutors are working overtime to bring violators to justice. A Paris court has just fined left-wing Writer François Fonvieille-Alquier for writing in his new book, To Relearn Irreverence, that the general gets carnal pleasure from...
...They put into practice, with their usual efficiency, the traditional Communist policy of punishing by execution selected leaders who support their enemies. In Hué as elsewhere, they were unable on the whole to capture and execute the more important officials, because these men were careful to protect themselves in heavily fortified compounds, defended by soldiers and police. In Hué as elsewhere, the more defenseless ; little people were the victims-the village and hamlet chiefs, the teachers and the policemen...
...making. But he didn't say anything to Big Lin." Only Eugene, who "wore glasses, read books and played the piano," had the nerve to tell off Big Lin and pop him in the nose "Suddenly Bobby shouted: 'Don't worry, Eugene, I'll protect you,' and Bobby socked Big Lin in the back of the head with the catcher's mask." After that "nobody thought much of Bobby. They figured maybe he was a lot more sly than he was brave...
Accurate reading of the Constitution does not permit such indulgences. Black has refused to stand against electronic eavesdropping because he concludes that since the framers of the Constitution said nothing about privacy, they did not mean to protect it. "Even though I like my privacy as well as the next person, I am nevertheless compelled to admit that the states have a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision...
Miss Bodian goes on to illustrate that there was a battle of wits going on during the tutorial program. I feel this was badly stated. It was more the psychic war in which all blacks as well as whites engage in order to protect themselves psychologically...