Word: punished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders would play spiritual havoc with the Allied peoples in their own long-frustrated desire to get at Hitler...
...stiff ruling against job-skipping that previously applied only to 19 isolated "trouble spots" will thereafter bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...
...sense in doing any more than necessity calls for. . . . Now if Admiral Byrd was to come and ask for volunteers to accompany him on an Antarctic expedition ... I would jump at that type of adventure. Just as in rowing, it seems my temperament is such that where I can punish myself ... it is just fine and dandy. But when it comes to handing it out, I just cannot...
...parents can put children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never...
...Dies Committee got set to grill C.I.O. leaders; proposals for three more investigations were dropped into the House hopper. Many besides Congressmen wondered: has U.S. labor at last united into a political force, able to reward its friends and punish its enemies...