Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edison can be fined for contaminating the Hudson. Legislation can force Detroit to clean up automobile exhausts. What can one do to punish the semantic aphasics for polluting their native language? None of man's specialties of self-destruction-despoliation of the environment, overpopulation, even war-appear more ingrained than his gift for fouling his mother tongue. Yet nobody dies of semantic aphasia, and by and large it gets complained about with a low-priority...
...Justice Department is also trying to punish the defense lawyers, who work for an OEO-sponsored legal service in Los Angeles. The law service is being shut down in June, largely because the government's lawyer, Guy Goodwin, filed a complaint against it in Washington. Goodwin has also threatened to prosecute the defense lawyers for obstructing justice because they advised their clients to remain silent...
...seems probable that no conspiracy existed. If the government knew this, then it can hardly argue that its motivation in seeking the indictments was is desire to see crime punished. Other possible motives exist: the government's desire to punish, or harass, or discredit those politically opposed to it. That it acted out of such motives does not seem implausible...
...demands? Last week New York's upstate Hobart College, the first U.S. college indicted for a criminal offense in the recent wave of campus disruption, stood trial for being "reckless" in just such a situation. The result may set a new legal limit on how far town can punish gown...
Rhodes and Del Corso had both made it clear that the Guard should not feel inhibited about their methods in breaking up student demonstrations. Students-all students-were the enemy. The Guard had no clear function on campus. It was there to punish the campus for being unruly, for being antiwar, for being young. It was there to garner a few points for an ambitious politician...