Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said bitterly, only fulfilled the prophecies of Patty's captors; he recalled that members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, who kidnaped Patty on Feb. 4, 1974, had warned her that "if you go back, society is going to be very harsh, and they are going to punish...
...would have to sentence her to time," but not to a term as harsh as, say, ten years. Zimring predicted a light sentence-or none at all. Yet he was troubled by his prediction. "What was there about the situation," he wondered, "that makes us all terribly unwilling to punish and yet creates such confidence in guilt...
...state; he also wants a reorganization of the army on a nonconfessional basis. Preoccupied with trying to maintain the cease-fire and stalemated by political bickering, the government paid little attention to Khatib and his growing band of rebels, even though 250 army officers demanded that the government punish the mutineers...
...charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House favors and punish White House enemies in legally questionable ways...
...agent, he stands to collect a fee of $45 million for a single deal to sell fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. Northrop once reported that it had given $450,000 to Khashoggi to pass on to two Saudi air force generals; Khashoggi says he pocketed the money to "punish" Northrop for thinking it could bribe the Saudis...