Word: punish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible to punish prisoners under the Convention...
...decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Illinois law, marking the first time it has sanctioned such statutes. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority: "If an utterance directed at an individual may be the object of criminal sanctions, we cannot deny to a state power to punish the same utterances directed at a denned group...
...Punish all future tax dodging severely (e.g., post the names of all offenders on public notice boards...
They are also entrusted with the power to make their own parietal rules and, in the student council, to punish those who break the rules. The dean of the college, Mrs. Esther Raushenbush, has no disciplinary duties; her job is purely educational...
...Have Some Guts." When Malaya's new British high commissioner, tough little General Sir Gerald Templer, heard the news, he sped to the barbed-wire village in his armored car, assembled 300 village elders in a school auditorium, and meted out punishment. Tanjong Malim had long been a supply and information depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped...