Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four children; the others died in infancy. He was baptized Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili. His father was a shoemaker, an alcoholic who beat Joseph unmercifully and finally deserted his family. But his mother loved her son. "[Soso] was always a good boy ... I never had to punish him," she said years later. Working as a laundress, she earned enough money to be able to send him to a parish school, later entered him in the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tiflis. Her ambition was to make him a priest...
Perhaps best of all is V. S. Pritchett's thoroughly lighthearted, thoroughly post-Freud A Story of Don Juan, which tells how Don Juan once visited Quintero, a man whose wife had died on their wedding night. To punish Juan for his sins, Quintero tucks him into the haunted nuptial bed. Next morning Don Juan goes off jaunty as ever. Poor Quintero wonders how his scheme has misfired, spends the next night in the haunted bed himself. The ghost is still there, and her arms are "of ice no more [but] of fire...
Asked for a comment by the CRIMSON, Feeney said, "You're all impure and every child in Cambridge knows it and I'm going to ask Our Lady to punish you." Later, he said to reporters, "I have no statements to make to that dirty, filthy CRIMSON...
When the Minister of Justice proposed a bill to punish by two to five years imprisonment, heavy fines, and public whipping, any broadly defined "incitement" to violation of race laws, the United Party squirmed publically. "Do you want equality?" asked the Malanists. The United Party put its tail between its legs...
They prefer to enslave the rest of the population rather than be free themselves. They continue to turn their government into a dictatorship. They continue to punish Negroes for such crimes as walking the wrong streets, riding the wrong streetcars, and criticizing the laws that enslave them...