Word: punished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat Lieut. General William N. Haskell, Tom Dewey was investigating : 1) a $1,600,000 bookkeeping shortage in Albany's capital funds, 2) "wholesale and shocking violations of the election law," 3) Albany tax assessments, which for years have been rigged to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies...
Without benefit of surprise, at the fag end of vital fighter-plane range, they had come ashore, skillfully coordinated their sea, air and land power, taken stiff punish ment, given harder blows back. If the Fifth had failed at Salerno, the Eighth would have had a much tougher job. And Mark Clark's reputation would have suffered an eclipse...
...same press conference the President served notice that all the machinery to punish Axis leaders was not simply machinery. He handed reporters a statement: "There are now rumors that Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action...
...enlightening speech contributed much to our understanding of his views. . . . He assumes that the war with Japan can mark time for a year or two, and that it can then be disposed of by the immediate transportation of the forces-the relatively few additional forces-needed to "punish the greedy, cruel empire of Japan." He has carefully prepared the mind of the British public for a partial demobilization at the prior point of Hitler's defeat; and the manner in which he has dwelt on this prospect suggests that in his mind the rest will be comparatively easy...
Responsible men who have talked with Stalin all come away with the conviction that he has the fixed determination to destroy Hitler's Army and to punish, man by man, Hitler's henchmen. He has, they say, a fanatical desire to keep hammering the Germans, to keep them rolling, never to let them get set for a counteroffensive. Some say he wants to raze Berlin, as so many Russian cities have been razed. They are unanimous in believing that there is no thought of a negotiated peace in his stubborn mind. They are satisfied that the reason...