Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrary to all traditions of Anglo-Saxon justice to punish a man for high crimes, never telling him what they are, and never allowing him to make a defense. Those who rail against this sort of thing in Congressional investigations must also condemn the hasty British action. But if the Guianan officials are liable to jail sentences, their former position should not keep them...
...must remember that none of these children want to be in school. They do not want to learn. They already belong to the streets. They know you cannot punish them physically or expel them. You must never raise your voice to them-if you argue, you are conceding their right to yell at you. You must never stand near them and never, never touch them-hatred for a teacher is part of their code and they must react or lose face if you do. You must never present them with ultimatums. But you must never cater to them...
...lockers. Last week, taking advantage of congressional permission granted two years ago in the Universal Military Training & Service Act, the Army finally decided to allow all officers' and NCOs' clubs to sell hard liquor over the bar. Though it admonished commanders to "encourage abstinence, enforce moderation and punish overindulgence," and forbade bar drinks for soldiers under 21, last week's directive promptly brought a protest from Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "More than 20,000 ex-uniformed alcoholics have passed through veterans' hospitals in the last three years...
...Taft-Hartley Act. In 1950, running for re-election in Ohio, he administered organized labor one of its most far-reaching political defeats. Union leaders thought they could beat him. In no state campaign had labor ever let loose such a concerted attack, determined as it was to punish the author of the Taft-Hartley Act, which they called the Slave Labor Act. Taft won by a majority almost twice the size of what he himself had predicted. It might have marked the high tide of labor's political influence. In any case, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. have...
Director Vicas, who is Russian-born, heard the soldier's story and then asked him: "Boy, have you thought what you've done? If you go back, they'll punish you, certainly. But this way, you'll never again see your mother or your friends...