Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to indict the lending institutions for taking their "pound of flesh" from the already harassed home buyer. The questionable fees charged for making the loan and the "tribute" the seller must pay in points charged against him when a buyer seeks an FHA loan are tantamount to fiscal blackmail...
...students and teachers we have no objective interest in kicking down the far from sturdy walls that still do protect us. For all their faults and inadequacies the universities, and especially perhaps Harvard, do constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society...
...Vices for One? Then there are the physicians and lawmen, like Commissioner Giordano, who indict marijuana on three counts: 1) it builds up an addictive need for continued use, 2) it leads often and almost inevitably to the use of hard narcotics such as heroin or to LSD,* 3) it impairs mental functioning at least temporarily and may damage the mind permanently or even destroy all rational mentation...
...defied the government to try to indict everyone who protested the war. "Are they chicken? Let them come...
...spokesman for the Minneapolis-based association said it hopes to indict the President for defrauding the public in the 1964 elections, and involving the United States in a war without the direct consent of Congress...