Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrne in threatening to deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both Sue Simone Ingersoll and her mother for Sue's acts [July 20], then it would seem that the Roman Catholic Church has taken a leaf from Communism's book. It has learned how to punish an offender through the offender's loved ones...
...punish Milazzo, and to regain dominance of Catholic Sicily, the Christian Democrats appealed to the Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York...
Underground oppositionists scoffed. Said one of their leaders: "On the day we take over, we will do all those things Stroessner promises today. And we will do one more thing: punish the men who enslaved, tortured and starved the people of Paraguay for years...
...there were twelve cuts in the five cables (nine tension breaks and three man-made cuts), all made in the vicinity of the trawler's operations. The U.S. reserved the right to make claims for damages and demanded that the Soviets take "such measures as are necessary to punish those who may be found to be guilty...
...become a battleground of the superpowers leads to emphasis of the spectacular over the useful--paving the streets of Kabul is better and more immediate propaganda, if poorer economics, than building a dam. Faced with a declaration of "war" in the economic field, the United States may either punish those who treat with the enemy or match the enemy's offers. But neither course is really practicable, for one smacks of "strings attached" aid and the other prevents any systematic long-range planning...