Word: punishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Raja, who once organized expeditions into the interior to punish his head-hunting subjects, now putters around his English garden, leaves most governmental affairs to his nephew, good-looking Raja Muda (Heir Apparent) Anthony Brooke...
...Parents often punish children severely for expressing perfectly normal instincts, especially sex. "The child would not be normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising...
...First, according to the U.S. conception, a war-crime code must be formulated. The British feared that Nazi criminals could not be properly tried under existing codes, wanted to punish them by a political fiat (as Napoleon was handled). Jackson and his aides believed that a proper code could be drafted from present international laws, and that in the long run a firm but fair trial procedure would be more effective...
...list of semifeudal laws which compelled the Indians, both men & women, to work for their landlords without pay, sometimes as much as five days a week. It agreed to enforce a longstanding, long-flouted law requiring landlords and mine owners to support elementary schools. The Government also threatened to punish "agitators"-which suggested that the proposed reforms were made to quiet rural unrest...
Urge to Self-Punishment. A murderer, he observes, almost invariably leaves at least one revealing clue. This is no accident: every murderer, however brutal, seems to be driven by an unconscious compulsion to betray himself, to punish himself for his crime. The more cautious he is, the more certain he is to make a misstep; some criminologists say that the hardest murder to solve is a completely impulsive...