Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...
Present penalties for recurrent parking violations are "pretty lenient," Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan said last night...
...James Cronin's insistence upon the primacy of parental authority in the education of children deserves praise by parents everywhere-both Catholic and otherwise. For a schoolteacher to ask the child itself to evaluate its home training in terms of "too strict" or "too lenient" is an absurdity whose only really efficacious result would be to suggest to the child that it had the wisdom and experience to veto its parents' home program. Both America and TIME have acted commendably in bringing to the public scrutiny this undermining of the rights of parents...
...practice, British judges have usually denied priests any legal right of refusal. But U.S. law has slowly become more lenient. Trickiest legal quibble: whether the confessional is an essential part of a church's system. Those who seek a pastor's advice on their own volition in nonconfessional churches may find their confidences are not protected by state...