Word: punished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans sent storm troopers into a village to punish its residents for not reporting for compulsory labor. A gallows was built. When dawn came, three German officers, one the commander, dangled from the crossbeam. Guerrillas had attacked during the night...
Congress, still trying to blame Leon Henderson for the X-card fiasco, got set to punish him for all the sour mail citizens have sent to Congress. Its method: cut his appropriation, possibly from $161 millions to $100 millions. Then Leon Henderson would have to ask for volunteer snoopers...
...They repeated and embellished their pledge of no wartime strikes. Promising to punish rebellious locals, Green declared: "I publicly disavow any strikes of any kind by any A.F. of L. union for the duration...
...boss of Australia's biggest newspaper chain, Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, spoke of an Australian counteroffensive "that will surprise the Japanese." The War Cabinet conferred with Army & Navy chiefs; Parliament met in secret sessions, and the Prime Minister threatened to punish any member who blabbed. "I am a man or a mouse," said Mr. Curtin, "and if I'm a mouse they can throw me out of office...
...Europe food is manipulated as a penal and political weapon, to punish and to bribe. In many places food supplies have been withdrawn or restricted in reprisal for minor infractions of Nazi edicts. When students plastered a French town with De Gaullist placards, meat ration cards were canceled for 40 days. In certain areas marked for German colonization, the Nazis withhold vitamins from the population to foster a slave mentality...