Word: punished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week observed that a single Japanese field telegraph pole had somehow caught fire he stepped on the accelerator, roared into Tientsin at 60 m. p. h. to report "the outrage." Soon a Japanese platoon had sallied forth into the very midst of hundreds of evacuating Chinese troops to "punish the offenders." The fact that four Japanese army scouts motoring in the wilds north of Peiping were detained by some Chinese officials overnight was reported in Japanese newsorgans under screaming headlines suggesting that "this indignity'' would necessitate Japanese invasion and occupancy of the Chinese Province of Chahar...
Last week Safeway Stores, largest food distributor in Los Angeles and leader of the fight for fair prices, hit upon a scheme to punish the cut-raters. Full-page advertisements appeared in Los Angeles newspapers announcing that Safeway would pay standard prices for butter, bacon, sugar, shortening and a long list of other items which other grocers were offering as "loss leaders." This meant that housewives could buy "loss leaders" at cut-rate stores, walk around the corner and sell them at a profit to Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying...
...making himself disliked. When the old Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says Biographer Kaus. Rather than punish her lover, Catherine shouldered the blame for her husband's death...
...signed at Athens by Foreign Ministers Maximos, Tewfik, Titulescu and Jeftitch of Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugoslavia pledges all signatories to defend the frontiers of each. Attached was a secret protocol, since divulged, extending the Pact to guarantee all Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...
Still a man of moods, Tarabas suffered fearful remorse, decided to resign his commission, punish himself by becoming a beggar. He had achieved tuberculosis, sainthood, the point of death before he found his victim again...