Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the Viet Nam War is unlike any in the nation's history, perhaps no precedent should be sought in history. Nearly everyone, even those few who still favor pursuing the war, now agrees that the U.S. should never have become involved in the way it did. Why punish those, ask the proponents of amnesty, who saw the light first? Many Americans have been against the war, but because they were ineligible through age, sex or infirmity, were not forced to back up their beliefs with their lives and careers. Why persecute those who, because they were young...
...blacks where they want to go, but don't punish white children by putting them in the ghetto...
...many cases, however, the arrests records are used under legal requirements; as an example, a New York State law requires that all prospective employees of securities firms be checked against the arrest records. Neier concluded that as long as such a file is extant, it will be used to punish persons who have not been convicted of any crime by depriving them of a livelihood...
...indictment that comes out of the Pentagon Papers represents a government effort to punish those who publish its crimes," Chomsky said...
...Some Altinhos thought the plague was a sign that God was displeased with long hair, miniskirts, rock music and the decrease in churchgoing among Altinho's youth. But Dona Nina Lemos, another of the town's schoolteachers, questioned that notion. She wondered: "If God were going to punish clothing styles, wouldn't he send a plague on Rio or New York or Paris? Why Altinho...