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Word: punisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transcripts of two top-secret memos from the new War Minister to his field commanders-one a warning that army demands for a whopping pay raise, which the military has since received (see THE HEMISPHERE), were really a ruse to create a "prerevolutionary climate," the other an order to punish any armymen caught supporting a general then under arrest. "Rare are confidential, secret or reserved matters I am not informed of the very next day," Columnist Fernandes crowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: The Prickliest Pundit | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Harry has deserted his girl Jeanie after arranging an abortion for her; he has become the pimp-lover of a whore; and now he is choking and robbing a blind beggar. "God will punish you!" cries the beggar. "God, huh?" says Harry. "Ask God to give you a new pair of eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Tropic of Corn | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...these seven children, living in a quiet suburban London street, and when mother dies, they do not tell anybody, but just quietly bury her in the back garden and carry on for a year or more as if nothing had happened. Well, nothing much. Gerty is bad, and they punish her and she dies, and they bury her too. Then Dad turns up. They had never seen him before. He thinks they are "a ripe bunch of little bastards," but buys them treats until he gets fed up and wants to pack them "into the bleeding orphanage." So Hubert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Good Old Mothertime | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...therefore let us punish Asa the Scribe, & make him confess before all Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot & Rebellion | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Then was the Wrath of the sons of Harvard kindled within them and they gathered themselves together and went to the House of Edward the Chief Ruler, and said, we will not confess, and if our Rulers shall punish Asa we will depart everyone to his own Home and leave the Rulers to the Meditation out of their own hearts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot & Rebellion | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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