Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obviously demand a bold new approach to the punishment of top political officials in this country. No more pathetic slaps on the wrist but no undue cruelty. Why not go back to the Code of Hammarabi--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? In other words, let the punishment fit the crime...
PUNISHMENT: Bush should be locked in a room with the most aggressive sales reps from the top 50 insurance firms in the U.S. He should be let out only when he has agreed to purchase policies equal to the value of his entire salary. Care should be taken, however, to make sure that he is not eaten alive...
Possible punishments range from a reprimand to expulsion from the House, although lawmakers in both parties seemed to think the final decision would come down to whether Wright should be reprimanded or simply chastised for poor judgment and let off without formal punishment...
...going to take an indefinite rest and let Mother Nature do the healing," the injury-riddled Samuelson said after finishing ninth in 2:37:51. "It could be one year or five years...
...first seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm of retribution...