Word: punish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
Suicide is often designed to punish or manipulate others. 'Our unconscious," Freud noted, "does not believe in its own death," and the man who seeks to end his life is no exception. The notes that suicides leave behind suggest that they rarely appreciate the fact that they will not be around to enjoy the fruits of their action. In analyzing 721 suicide notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize...
...against the Republic in Algeria (1961) and succeeded in getting junior officers to carry out their orders. To prevent such actions in the future, General Fernand Gambiez and others have spent three years rewriting the French military code. In one of the new provisions, a soldier may refuse to punish prisoners and civilians by "cruel treatment, torture and threats." Indeed, he may be court-martialed for obeying illegal orders...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information...
Quick Controversy. The hearing was called to gather information for a pending bill that would make it a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman...