Word: mete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left his quarters in the Havana Hilton Hotel whether the shooting of Fulgencio Batista's accused henchmen would be called off, Castro replied swiftly: "No. To the contrary, we have given orders to shoot every one of these murderers. And if we have to battle world opinion to mete out justice we are prepared...
...mysteries of human nature and adept in the discovery of the truth in the discordant testimony of fallible human beings; judges beholden to no man, independent and honest and-equally important-believed by all men to be independent and honest; judges, above all, fired with consuming zeal to mete out justice according to law to every man, woman and child that may come before them and to preserve individual freedom against any aggression of government; judges with the humility born of wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday...
...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...