Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introducing the feature speaker, Senator Nixon, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated that Republicans were asking for votes "on the assurance that we will clean out the revolting and inexcusable corruption in government, climinate the tremendous waste in government, and ruthlessly discharge and punish whatever Communists there may be in government...
...once owned," he said, "only six are left, and now I am selling them. But it is better to live poor in a land where one can follow his faith than in a godless country. To the Communists, there is no God but Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion. But nothing is forbidden...
...conference adopted the Sub-Commission method of listing separately the types of utterances which a nation might punish without violating the Covenant. It preserved the seven specific limitations (such as 'expressions which incite persons to alter by violence the system of government'), and added an eighth--the so-called Indian amendment-which gave an option to pass laws against 'the systematic diffusion of deliberately false or distorted reports which undermine friendly relations between peoples and States'. For this there is no counter part in the United States, and the amendment was opposed by the American delegate in the Legal Committee...
...wall. "Ha," said Aragon. The World Peace Congress, after hearing Baritone Paul Robeson assail "the slanders of the American mercenary press," happily adopted Picasso's dove and happily applauded Fadeyev's attack on the makers of the North Atlantic Pact. "We, the people of the world, shall punish you severely," cried Fadeyev in his most peace-like manner...
...rape episode by the censors, Director Kazan had to agree to change the play's ending to punish Kowalski, though the "punishment"-his wife's refusal to have anything more to do with him-seems not only mild but temporary. Elsewhere the movie's changes are more subtle. The play took no sides between Blanche and Kowalski; the film softens her into a more sympathetic figure, turns him into more of a loudmouthed heel. The new script also muffles the undertone of sex that accompanied the hostility between the two characters in the play...