Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sodium chloride. The city buzzed with the news that an Afghan arms-buying mission would soon be on the way to Moscow, and that large quantities of Soviet arms would get into the hands of Afghanistan's border-raiding Pathan tribesmen. Thus the Soviet Traveling Salesmen sought to punish the West's good friend Pakistan. Having endorsed India's claims to Kashmir (disputed by Pakistan), they now encouraged the Afghans' claim to northern territories of West Pakistan...
...hole in the dike. The doctor enlarges it, brings the churchman at last to confess crimes he has never committed in order to punish himself for the sins he is truly guilty of. Too late the exhausted cardinal realizes his mistake: a man may not judge himself any more than he may judge another. Defaced, the living monument is set free, "to walk the world like Cain." He goes to meet his fate, far worse than death to his human pride, with a simple courage that leaves the interrogator shaken. "It means," the doctor says wonderingly, "you've defeated...
...short, "In the South the Negro's person and property are practically subject to the whim of any white person who wishes to take advantage of him or to punish him for any real or fancied wrong doing or 'insult'... Violence may occur at any time and it is the fear of it as much as the violence itself that creates the injustice and the insecurity." (Arnold Rose, The Negro in America...
...short, "In the South the Negro's person and property are practically subject to the whim of any white person who wishes to take advantage of him or to punish him for any real or fancied wrong doing or 'insult'... Violence may occur at any time and it is the fear of it as much as the violence itself that creates the injustice and the insecurity." (Arnold Rose, The Negro in America...
...expelled, or at least get bad-conduct marks on their final reports? The Bible teacher's view was that they should. Not so. said the principal, and handed out good-conduct marks. The school's teaching staff agreed, taking the position that "the schools should not punish, now that society no longer does." The outraged Bible teacher appealed to the school board, which simply referred him to the official handbook on sex education in public schools-"Established sex relations between youngsters may not be contrary to the general viewpoint in their circles . . ." -and upheld the principal...