Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chivalry, England's tournament-loving, debt-ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
...stay in Korea made good sense if that decision was looked on as part of a plan to punish the Chinese aggressor. The Chinese army could be fought in the north, while Red China's strength was drained by embargo and Nationalist attacks in the south. But to stay in Korea and not try to hurt Red China elsewhere would be just obstinacy, not policy...
...Harvard and a good number of other colleges, however, have usually spotted the distinction; they have seen that freedom of expression can be one of the biggest factors in giving them a "good name" to protect. Brown, on the other hand, has just joined the ranks of colleges that punish undergraduates when they say things which threaten the college's policies or "good name." Brown is not alone. Princeton, Radcliffe, Brooklyn, Adelphi, and others have incurred public ridicule by disciplining students in retribution for "objectionable" articles in undergraduate publications...
...contribute lawyers, economists and other experts to the ESA until its own staff is complete, and authorized DiSalle to use FBI men and other Government investigators to comb the country for price-control violators. With that kind of help, the OPS hoped to root out violators early and punish them heavily (maximum penalty under the law: a year in jail, $10,000 fine) to discourage other violators. "There will be no wrist-slapping," promised a price official...
...other important official in Phat Diem. "We are very human here," he explains. "If we catch a thief we just keep him in jail for a few months, and then if he is converted to the church or shows himself repentant we let him go. We have no capital punishment. We have no corporal punishment either. Of course, when we catch a spy we beat him. But that is not to punish him. It is only to get the truth...