Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Megaera (despairing): The gods have sent him to punish us because you're a Christian...
...Radcliffe's sign-out rules have shown a healthy tendency towards greater freedom. The Administration, rather than returning to childish regulations, should encourage girls to make more realistic estimates of when they will return to the dorm. It is silly and unjust to ask other girls to help punish mistakes in judgment...
...Football is a contact sport," says Taylor, who packs 215 Ibs. on a 6-ft. frame. "You've got to punish tacklers-deal out more misery than they deal out to you." Taylor's personal philosophy is uncomplicated: "I like to knock heads." A driving, crablike runner, he always hits the line precisely where he is supposed to-even when there is no hole ("I won't be intimidated''), never cuts when he can run down a tackler instead ("I like to sting them a little''). Crouched low to present the smallest possible...
...established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs or to collect debts, as long as the attackers refrained from annexing territory or changing the form of government. But when Germany undertook a blockade of Venezuelan ports in 1902 to force the current dictator to pay claims due to German citizens, U.S. public opinion got so aroused that...
...intellectualizing about suicide should be carefully assessed." His motives, the researchers reported, are likely to be: 1) a desire to "destroy himself because he can no longer tolerate the discrepancy between how he appears to himself and how he would like to be," 2) a need "to punish the other person who has been so frustrating and has brought him so much hurt," 3) an urge to repent for some sin, and 4) a cry for help-"Please rescue me, don't leave me alone." The best that a college can do for such disturbed students, said Braaten...