Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confiscate:rob: : (a) offend:insuit (b) receive:take (c) avenge:punish (d) trespass:walk (e) execute:murder...
...ensuing riot, four policemen and a six-year-old boy were injured. The police staunchly continue to protect the Negroes, although the huge details assigned to Trumbull Park mean that other areas of the city are going without adequate police protection. No real effort is made to punish rioters. Police make few arrests because, they say, magistrates (only two persons were charged with disorderly conduct in last week's riot) afraid of political reprisals will not take a firm line against the white demonstrators...
...power because he was the "son of a witch." There was also dimly at hand a satisfying monster called the Todal who is made of lip, looks like a blob of glup, sounds like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. The Todal's job was to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should, and he ended the play by making a mouthful of the ineptly villainous Duke...
...Communists set out to identify and punish the rioters of the June uprising, to sniff out and crush every lingering trace of dissidence, and to discipline party members who were guilty of "capitulatory behavior." Strongman Ulbricht fired Wilhelm Zaisser, boss of the SSD (the Soviet zone security police), reinstated the backbreaking work norms, launched a clattering campaign against Western "spies" and "saboteurs." East German papers were crammed with lurid stories of arrests, trials, confessions and stern punishments. By last week, in the courts of cold-eyed Minister of Justice Hilde Benjamin, "the Red guillotine," some 320 sentences had been handed...
...persecution of Protestants in Colombia [Oct. 5] . . . The Pope is spiritual leader of Catholics all over the world. Why doesn't he punish, or admonish, at least, those of his subjects guilty of these atrocities...