Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...being held throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva in Evening Moscow: "It was with enormous indignation and wrath that we, the youth of the University construction project, learned of the repulsive activities of the despised hireling of foreign people...
...Archbishop laid in her hands the Sovereign's Sword-to "do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God . . . restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order." The Queen took the Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God. Turning, she stole a glance at the royal gallery, where her 4-year-old son Prince Charles, in a white silk suit, watched enraptured. She paused and returned to the chair...
...statement to the press, Mrs. Markham declared that the questioning "confirmed my prediction of yesterday that this was an attempt to punish me and the Harvard Corporation because we have not capitulated to their dictates...
...people of other Catholic countries also punish Judas at the end of Holy Week. In Spain and Portugal and several Latin American countries, peasants burn Judas in effigy. Mexicans blow him to bits with firecrackers...