Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that-something the office had done to the man. He no longer looked like an anonymous face in the crowd. He stood erect as a West Pointer, radiated confidence, and looked amazingly trim for a man of 65. He had sampled authority, and liked it. He could reward friends, punish enemies. He had proved that he could whip his opponents even when some of his own supporters were dragging their feet. Not only was Harry Truman used to the job he once had feared-he felt jauntily on top of it. "My God! What is there in this place that...
Approved by both Pakistan's Constituent Assembly and India's Parliament, the agreement outlined plans to protect the rights of minority peoples and to punish any who violated those rights. The mere signing of the agreement created a calm among both Moslems and Hindus, so that the torrent of refugees which swelled during recent communal riots (TIME, April 10) slowed to a trickle. Some of the refugees began to go back home, where the agreement assures them the return of any property they may have left behind. Said Nehru: "We have stopped ourselves at the edge...
...friend, Dan O'Connell, Albany's Democratic boss. Dan was sick in bed but willing to listen, for he had some personal problems. The state courts had been meddling in real-estate assessments in Albany, which are carefully adjusted to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies. Democrat Dan found that annoying. Furthermore, if & when the state took over rent control, O'Connell would have another problem: the Albany staff of the Federal Housing Expediter, which happens to be stuffed with O'Connell men, would be out of work...
Some kind of corrective legislation seems almost inevitable. But a sloppily-drawn measure would punish innocent universities as well as the guilty ones. Congress will have to be careful in wording the laws, so that it does not, in University Treasurer Paul C. Cabot's words, "burn down the barn to kill the rats...
...longed for, with a shabby $30 wardrobe and a full range of seamy emotions, and she gives it the full measure of her considerable talent and beauty. But she is surrounded by such mediocrity that her performance seems pathetically wasted. Would-be moralists who are trying to punish her and Director Rossellini for their private transgressions by banning Stromboli might serve their own ends better by having the picture shown as widely as possible...