Word: punished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Security guards said the lists were not used to punish active students but to know the names of organizers in case the protests resulted in personal injury or property damage...
What had gone wrong? Had the Iranians reneged on a commitment in order to further humiliate and punish the U.S.? Had U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who handled much of the negotiations, promised Washington more than Tehran was prepared to deliver? The most plausible explanation was that the murky internal politics of Tehran were responsible. Both Banisadr, who has advocated release of the hostages since his election in January, and the militants at the embassy had been pressing Khomeini for a decision. Government insiders in Tehran contend that the Ayatullah could not afford to favor either side. If he instructed...
...disquieting about the way the press protects those whose leaks jeopardize due process of law or disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted." For the sake of a good story, the press sometimes commits its own honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains...
...woman, who loved not wisely but too well, both being married people, determined on running away...they were caught and brought back. The Amir, in ordering their punishment, said that, as the man was so fond of the woman, he should have her as completely as was possible. So the woman was thrown alive into a huge cauldron of boiling water, and boiled down to soup, and a basin of this soup was given to the man, who was forced to drink it, and after drinking it he was hanged. In this case the Amir's object was to punish...
...accorded an eleven-gun salute by the Dutch governor. Thus, as noted on a plaque presented to the island by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "the sovereignty of the United States of America was first formally acknowledged" by a foreign power. In 1781 London dispatched Admiral George Brydges Rodney to punish the Statian "nest of vipers." Wrote Rodney: "Had it not been for this infamous island, the American Revolution could not possibly have subsisted." In five months Rodney stripped the Golden Rock of booty then worth as much as ?4 million (as high as $100 million by today's values...