Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to. The committee decided not to punish him, and CBS seemed ready to take him back. Said Schorr: "It appeared to me, from the ashes of all the trouble we'd had, that a whole new era might arrive...
...have constantly surprised ourselves with the impact of Watergate. It reached deeper into our lives than anybody calculated. Just last week, before he went off to chair the Republican Convention, Congressman John Rhodes wondered whether "the American people might still be of a mind to punish Republicans at the polls for the sins of a Republican President no longer around." Rhodes said he found such a prospect "unfathomable" and concluded that if voters held current Republicans responsible for Watergate and failed to show anger at Democrats for Congressional abuse and scandal, it would be the "most unconscionable double standard...
...March 31. King approves first of parliamentary reprisals known as "Intolerable Acts." To punish Boston for Tea Party, the port is to be closed until colonial authorities pay ? 18,000 for destroyed tea. Later measures include ban on any public meetings without Governor's approval and a requirement that British troops be housed in private dwellings wherever necessary. May 17. Rhode Island issues first call for a colonial Congress, soon echoed by Pennsylvania and New York. Sept 5. First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia for nearly two months and issues a declaration of ten "rights," including "life, liberty...
...seems as if that contradicts what you state in your preface to Interview with History. You say, "I do not understand power, the mechanism by which men or women feel themselves invested or become invested with the right to rule over others and punish them if they do not obey. Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president...I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon." As a journalist and writer, you wield a very real power, and I think you understand that...
Many Israelis worried over what the strange new relationship would do to their image. South Africa was suspended from the United Nations General Assembly in 1974 for apartheid; Arab members last year attempted to punish Israel in similar fashion by equating apartheid and other forms of racism with Zionism. In the wake of Vorster's visit, renewed efforts are almost certain. Said a U.S. analyst specializing in Israeli affairs: "It's only grist for the Zionism-racist mill...