Word: punished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King said his goal was to press on with hiscampaign, not to find and punish the offenders...
...Conservative Republicans were evidently apprehensive, with good cause, about their basic instincts. This fear led to a heightened self-righteousness and inflamed passion to punish the President for his misdemeanor. But the Republicans carried on the flogging too long, and the people got weary. The Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote in his immortal words addressed to the man flogging the whore, "Strip thine own back;/ Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind,/ For which thou whipp'st her" (King Lear). NARAYAN SWAMY Chennai, India...
...rehearsals and, that same day, appearing on Good Morning America. Before the committee, Starr methodically recites his resume, as if who he is would serve as an explanation for what he has done. He is the most pedantic of teachers, one who wouldn't descend to your level to punish you in class for clowning but would see to it that the principal called your parents and revoked your lunchtime privileges...
...Adams resident was "gonged" was inappropriate. When I confronted the "gong woman," she said something to the effect of, "Harassment is a tradition of Adams House. If you don't like it, get out," and "We have tried to get through to the administration, now we want to punish the students...
...suggested that it would rid the world of Saddam. The goal of the strikes was more modest and less satisfying: to "degrade" Iraq's ability to make and deploy weapons of mass destruction, temporarily at best. Maybe to club Saddam into some cooperation with the inspections regime. Certainly to punish him. But not to solve the Saddam problem for good...