Word: punish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb has served the purpose for which it was conceived. Let one more be made and dropped on the two-billion-dollar project; let lips be sealed as to its secret; let each nation agree to punish by death any outlaw who presumes to foster its search...
...Special service organizations (e.g., secret police) will be abolished; only the judicial branch will have the right to arrest, try, punish...
...gave the writer of a kiddies' program. He was told to have "no romances between nobility and commoners, no mention of castles or peasant huts . . . no largesse by an aristocratic hero to a humble maid." An acceptable radio drama might tell how a German baron used to punish his starving tenants for stealing potatoes, and show how his estate has now been divided up into homes for all. During the rest of its 19-hours-a-day on the air, the station has stressed how the Russians pioneered in bringing food into Berlin, introduced racial tolerance, encouraged the rebirth...
...lists. There was bitter derision for Tojo's suicide failure and favorable comment on those officials who gave themselves up. When Tokyo papers (on direction from MacArthur's headquarters) published accounts of atrocities suffered by U.S. prisoners, Japanese asked that they be allowed to arrest, try and punish their own criminals...
...Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...