Word: punish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having sidestepped for three years such logical solutions of India's food problem as rationing, the British Raj was failing to apprehend and punish large hoarders. Yet last week, on the 13th anniversary of a declaration of Indian independence still unrealized, the Raj arrested some 200 demonstrators, while Mohandas Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, framer and proclaimer respectively of the declaration, remained in custody...
Then came Lincoln's assassination and President Johnson's battles with a hostile Congress, led by the redoubtable and unscrupulous Thaddeus Stevens (Lionel Barrymore). Johnson seeks to conciliate the South and repair the Union; Stevens to punish the rebels. This part of the film treads on blood-soaked ground, has already aroused protests from a few Negro-philes, who revere Abolitionist Stevens as a hero. At the suggestion of the OWI, Director William Dieterle reshot some sequences to make Abolitionist Stevens a more sympathetic character...
...often told the U.S. press: "The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." Like an early Father of the Church, Agar believes that Hitler and the other great malefactors of mankind are sent by Providence to punish people who have betrayed their spiritual heritage. The standard-bearers of democratic civilization failed to live up to their own standards. If they want to survive, they must practice what they preach...
Tokyo had been bombed. Everyone remembered how Hero Jimmy Doolittle (obviously coached) had said: "Not one U.S. plane was shot down and none was damaged to an extent which precluded its proceeding to its final destination." When Tokyo announced last week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
...Navy of the Great Japanese Empire will not punish you all with death. Those obeying the rules and regulations, and believing the action and purpose of the Japanese Navy, cooperating with Japan in constructing the "New Order of Great Asia" which lead to the worlds peace will be well treated...