Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take a man doing a highly technical job and punish him because a doorknob is not shiny enough; make him appear in uniform on his own time to hear an official announcement the content of which he knew days before; make him an officer and expect him to believe in these absurdities. The mind boggles briefly and then realizes that the Army is something to be borne and that dignity and fulfillment will have to be sought elsewhere. Exit one valuable...
...Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education have decided not to punish their students who were involved in the Paine Hall...
...DISCUSSION of punishment for the Paine Hall demonstrators, the Administrative Board has been giving serious consideration to the possibility of punishing those involved in last year's Dow demonstration more severely than those who were not. We have argued before that the Paine Hall demonstration does not warrant any substantial punishment; but if the Administrative Board is determined to punish the students involved, it should not try to single out the Dow demonstrators for especially harsh treatment...
While he has not yet tried to punish Huie, Battle last autumn cited four other men for contempt because of articles about the trial published in Memphis newspapers. Though he is modest and taciturn, Battle does not intend to be pushed around by the participants in the case-not even by the suave and explosive Percy Foreman of Houston, Ray's lawyer. According to one Memphis attorney, who knows Battle's style: "He can eat you out all of a sudden without your ever knowing it's coming and without changing his expression...
...mass upheaval is part of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's plan for a revolution in the country's educational policies; he is said to believe that the present setup tends to perpetuate urban, bourgeois values. It is also something of a "rectification" campaign, however, designed to punish the young Red Guards who ran wild after Mao proclaimed his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...