Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was a strong American bias toward giving authority to "the man in the field," undercutting attempts to create a highly-centralized strategy. Finally, America had traditionally regarded the aggressive use of force as criminal or insane, to be countered with a "crusade" to destroy the out-law and imprison the sick...
...emissary collected a pinch of earth, a withered flower, and in a small bottle took a sample of air from the graveside. He then returned to Haiti, where he delivered the items to Duvalier. "Papa Doc," as Duvalier calls himself, wanted them for a voodoo incantation, hoping to imprison Kennedy's soul, make it subject to his will, and thus influence the U.S. State Department's decisions regarding Haiti...
...state it simply, this school has an irresistible tendency to imprison and confuse the mind within a stralt-jacket of fashionable jargon. If traditional learning (which Mr. Horne evidently loathes) confuses less than it enlightens, why should it not be continued, nay, expanded? Cheng-Telk...
...security cops, whisked off to splendid isolation in Uruba Palace, Nasser's 40-room state guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented to imprison a visiting head of government." Forced to watch the conference on television, he refused to eat for fear of being poisoned, drank Katanga beer he had brought with him, and kept his four secretaries up all night typing protests to all 46 nations at the meeting...
...inviting the Federal Government to step into the ring and put up its dukes. In 1958, during an investigation of voting rights, Wallace defied a federal court order to hand over records to the Justice Department. Instead, "the Fighting Judge," as he came to be called, threatened to imprison any FBI agent who invaded his circuit on a "snooping" mission...