Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons for quitting the Army, Walker said: "My career has been destroyed. I must find other means of serving my country in the time of her great need. To do this, I must be free from the power of the little men who, in the name of my country, punish loyal service...
...Must. In the 19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white...
...bill sought merely to punish demonstrators who provoked violence or invaded official quarters, such as the Diet grounds and the Prime Minister's residence. But prodded by the powerful Sohyo trade union combine, the Socialist opposition soon was demanding that only rightist demonstrators be curbed. For weeks Ikeda tried to work out a compromise. Finally, Ikeda lost patience and forced the bill to a vote in the lower house. In Japan, this is described as resorting to "the tyranny of the majority." Socialist delegates resorted to their fists, forcibly took over the rostrum. The Speaker riposted by conducting...
...riot, Bobby Kennedy urged the Freedom Riders to go slowly. But the Freedom Riders in Montgomery were determined to push on to New Orleans by way of Mississippi, a state ruled by Governor Ross Barnett, who had once declared: "The Negro is different because God made him different to punish him." Barnett, noting well what had happened in Alabama, assured Attorney General Kennedy that Mississippi would protect the students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane...
Work or Else. In their zeal the soldiers were showing a pronounced impatience with due process of law. "We can arrest, detain and punish anyone," snapped Chang...