Word: punish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What makes Wall Street most nervous is that SEC wants a new power. It wants to be able to revoke an exchange's license (or punish its members) for failure to enforce (or live up to) the exchange's own rules. It can now do so only for failure to obey SEC rules...
...break the ambitions of the American people and do not punish it for its unfairness, our souls will know no peace, even when they leave this world. We fought China for Korea. We fought Russia for Manchuria. The circumstances will oblige us to fight America. The war between Japan and the United States is the inevitable fate of our nation...
Henry Shreve's keelboat floated past "bleak and dingy" Pittsburgh; past Charlestown with its two-story pillory and stocks ("there were not many towns that could punish two culprits at once"); past Wheeling, "a notoriously gay port"; past Marietta, where everybody asked...
Instead, not understanding his powerful sex urge, he convinced himself that his mother had disgraced the family honor. He had been brought up among people who consider it right to punish someone who disgraces the family-Gino never thought he was doing wrong...
...hope to speak for my party-that there are no two wills about it. We will not punish-there will be no spirit of hatred-but we will see to it that there is no repetition of this kind of spirit in Germany." To this, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden assented: "I agree with every single word Mr. Lawson said. . . ." Some were reminded, by sentiments such as these, of feelings expressed by Winston Churchill back in 1930. In his premature autobiography, A Roving Commission, he wrote: "I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming...