Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority vote showed that "the people of Massachusetts are humane and decent," Wald said. "They never backed the war and don't want to punish people who stayed...
...risk the bundle in Las Vegas (where he doubles it), then lose it all on some unwise basketball bets. He finally settles the matter by getting his favorite student -a black -to shave points in a game, then expiate that sin by provoking a black pimp and whore to punish him unwittingly in a switchblade battle...
Marek makes clear, though, that Franz Joseph was much more than a uniformed bureaucrat. He was literally and psychologically a survivor. He had come to power upon his uncle's abdication during the Revolution of 1848, and he proceeded to put down and punish the rebels ruthlessly. He stubbornly refused to sell the region of Venetia for nearly $1 billion and then lost it-and many thousands of lives-as a result of a disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin...
...after being elbowed aside once too often that Angelina Alioto decided to punish her husband Joseph, the ambitious mayor of San Francisco, by disappearing for 17 days last year without telling him where she was going. "At five feet," she says, "I'm the right size to be elbowed in the head." Her husband often failed to introduce her at functions they attended together; he even appropriated her quotes, she claims, without giving her credit. "Son of a biscuit-eater, I'm nobody's robot...
...control over the grand jury proceedings or the district attorney's office, and could not be held responsible for the legal actions taken against Officer Hanna. Even if they agreed with the black demands, the merchants said, there was nothing they could do about it. To severely punish them economically was not only unjust, but pointless, they insisted...