Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame for its defeat will rub off on the Republicans. He is already scheduled to campaign in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and Ohio. But wherever he goes, and whatever he says about medicare, John Kennedy will be hard-pressed to explain why the voters should punish his Republican opponents and continue to support the 21 stalwart Democrats of the Senate who ganged up on him last week...
...Yugoslavia and Poland (relenting only to allow surplus food to be sent) and blocked aid to any nation that seizes private U.S. property without prompt steps toward compensation. Last week the anger welled up in the House to produce a similar expropriation penalty, including a retroactive clause to punish Brazil-and thus put a damper on the Alliance for Progress. The House also rushed through a drastic amendment denying any special U.S. aid to the United Nations until all other nations had met all of their U.N. financial obligations-a ban that, in effect, would give any nation a veto...
...instructing a crowd of 6,000 supporters to raise barricades around his campaign headquarters he demanded the appointment of a "tribunal of honor" to revise the election results- otherwise he would fight. "In case the government does not comply," he cried, "we will be compelled to overthrow it and punish it for its misdeeds...
...Acts empowered the President to export any alien deemed dangerous to the country and to punish journalists for printing anything detrimental to the national interest. A journalist, John Peter Zenger, was brought to trial under the Sedition Act, but a jury found him innocent. By 1801, both laws had vanished from the federal statute book...
...business community was plainly apprehensive of Kennedy's wrath. Said Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of Rockwell-Standard Corp. (axles and frames): "Kennedy's press conference performance showed a most vicious attitude toward business. What kind of justice is it-when one guy steps out of line to punish us all for being in business...