Word: witch
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...immediate and intolerable threat to the U.S. and its allies. And former chief UN inspector Hans Blix is firing broadsides, bluntly accusing the U.S. and Britain of spinning the available evidence beyond the realm of plausible conclusions to make the strongest case for war, likening them to Mediaeval witch-hunters who went out and "found" witches once they'd convinced themselves that such creatures actually existed...
...merely upholding the law when it shut the Uzan businesses down. Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said the Uzan utilities failed to pay debts and repeatedly refused to turn over their transmission lines to the newly formed national grid. Erdogan denied that his government was engaged in a political witch-hunt. "We have no personal vendetta," he said last week. "We have a duty to the people who elected us to rid the country of dirty odors." Analysts agree that while the crackdown may serve a political purpose, it may also be part of a long overdue anticorruption drive required...
...also wrote parodies that poked fun at Puritan intolerance. In one of them, called "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly," a couple of accused witches were subjected to two tests: weighed on a scale against the Bible, and tossed in the river with hands and feet bound to see if they floated. They agreed to submit--on the condition that two of the accusers take the same test. With colorful details of all the pomp, Franklin described the process. The accused and accusers all succeed in outweighing the Bible. But both of the accused and one of the accusers fail...
...University still refuses to release the names of the students.... But this position ignores the crucial issue: that the students in 1920 had done no wrong and that they were victims of a witch-hunt. By not revealing the students’ names, the University implies that they were accused of some legitimate transgression; nothing could be further from the truth...
...Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, and Antonio Costa, head of the party's parliamentary delegation. Under Portuguese law, the police are allowed to listen in on anyone's phone conversations with special judicial permission, if they believe doing so will help solve a serious crime. The Socialists smell a witch-hunt: Ferro Rodrigues said he had learned of plans to implicate him in the scandal, although Attorney General José Souto de Moura insists he is not a suspect. Party spokesman Manuel Alegre said there could be no democracy if "everyone is listening in on everyone else." Francisco...