Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this regret and outrage lack channels for its full expression. In the best of all possible worlds it would no doubt be possible to organize a tribunal to assess the burden of guilt borne by so many professional political scientists for the criminal war in Southeast Asia and to punish them accordingly...
...After reading your story about prisons, I am reminded of what G.B. Shaw once said: "To punish a man you must injure him; to reform a man you must improve him, and men are not improved by injuries...
...When the darn was being planned in 1956, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser won pledges of $268 million in assistance from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians also supplied 2,000 technicians to work with 35,000 Egyptian laborers...
...group gave loud approval to a statement read to the assembly by Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University, which charged that the indictments "are intended to punish these individuals for their anti-war activities...
...prisoners survive by selling their blood or bodies. To blot out the place, they sniff glue and gobble smuggled pills. Some mornings, 200 men are too stoned to work. Since gambling is pervasive, loan sharks top the prison pecking order. They charge 50¢ per dollar a week and swiftly punish defaulters. In a single month last summer, Cummins recorded 19 stabbings, assaults and attempted rapes. The worst of it is the privacy-robbing barracks, where 100-bunk rooms house all types, from harmless chicken thieves to homicidal sadists, and the young spend all night repelling "creepers" (rapists...