Word: punished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punish Chep Morrison, Earl would cut New Orleans' sales tax from 2% to 1% (an annual reduction of $4,500,000) thereby crippling all city services from garbage collection to law enforcement. Just to make sure of his grip on New Orleans' police and fire departments, Earl planned to dominate them through an eleven-man board consisting of the mayor, his commissioner of public safety and nine Long henchmen...
Sometimes, a trainer will imply that this isn't the day: "This horse is not up to a hard race. If he gets tired, don't punish him." Except in flagrant cases, nobody can tell by watching a race whether a jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...
...asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles-no automobiles...
...that private ownership of the means of production leads to war. It followed, in Communist logic, that warmongering could not exist in the U.S.S.R., and must exist in the U.S. The Russian resolution named the U.S., Greece and Turkey as responsible for warmongering. Vishinsky demanded that all U.N. governments punish as criminals any citizens whose words might lead...