Word: leniently
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...Happy Time. In Knoxville, Tenn., Criminal Court Judge J. Fred Bibb refused to hear any more criminal cases during the holiday season, explained: "Jurors are full of the Christmas spirit, and are inclined to be lenient...
...decisive split developed over an emotionally charged issue: should the vanquished followers of Perón be treated to stern vengeance or lenient tolerance? Some of Lonardi's backers demanded a hard-handed crackdown, picturing...
...result of his illegal voyage to the British Isles last June, Hurst was sentenced to one day's probation last week in New York. He received this very lenient sentence after pleading guilty...
...Administrative Board is being more "lenient in considering petitions" by returning veterans and other undergraduates "with awfully good reasons" to live in apartments, in an effort to open spaces in the Houses, according to Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House...
Hauled off to jail, Pagala Baba demanded meat instead of the customary vegetarian prison diet. Said he: "I am indifferent to punishment by men because God's justice is supreme." Last week, given a "lenient" sentence of two years "because of his age," he was no longer so indifferent to man's justice. A number of wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack...