Word: punished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leave Him to Heaven. In Oklahoma City, Bible-reading Isaac Coker, annoyed by the "rantin' religion" of a next-door prayer meeting, blazed away with a shotgun, wounded the preacher, who refused to prosecute Coker, since "the Lord will punish...
...Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word of God. And if you do not do it willingly and friendly, you will be forced to do it through violence. If these peasants do not do it, others will. God will and must punish...
Points & Counterpoints. The bridegroom was a member of the 78th ("Lightning") Division. He knew that if U.S. authorities learned of the marriage they would probably annul it and punish him. But with only 23 points, he faced another year in Berlin, so the chance seemed well worth taking...
...rnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying 'democracy' too far if you punish generals for waging...
...Ultimate Step. Prosecutor Jackson defended this pragmatic approach on the pragmatic ground that the end justified the only practicable means. In the prosecution view, the object of Nurnberg was not merely to punish these particular offenders, but to evolve from their trials a body of effective international law against all aggressive war. Said Jackson...