Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents, and Presidents who would have brought the country to ruin if they had had their way. It has survived the murders of a few good Presidents. It can survive the resignation of a dishonest one. In fact, the demonstration that 18th century laws could come to life and punish crimes committed at the highest levels of power has unproved the opinion the world has of the United States." There too Richard Nixon played his part...
...from Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. But in both instances, the loyalists insisted, there was no evidence that Nixon had approved the acts. Moreover, since the political audits never were carried out, New Jersey's Charles Sandman declared that to impeach Nixon for that would be to be punish him "for a thought, not a deed...
...surprising that we produce these intense, very romantic, revolutionary people. When people have been caged up as long as they have, the wonder is that we don't see more violence than we really do." Indeed, despite some isolated improvement, most prisons are still better equipped to punish prisoners than to rehabilitate them. Official prison structures remain more likely to make new criminals or harden old ones than to reform anyone. Thus the new breadth of the schools for crime is especially critical in determining how a prisoner will turn out. And if a convict's rage against...
...nations, supported the Arab demand for an Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories. But the Dutch in fact signed a Common Market statement issued last November supporting United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for such a pullback. The Arabs may be officially maintaining the boycott not so much to punish the Dutch as to keep a sword of Damocles dangling over the international oil companies that have huge investments in refineries and pipelines in Rotterdam...
...unrestrained lawlessness that has reigned in our country for many years, and an eight-year campaign of slander and persecution against me, I refuse to recognize the legality of your summons. Before asking that citizens obey the law, learn how to observe it yourselves. Free the innocent, and punish those guilty of mass murder...