Word: punishingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indonesians took over in 1950. Most of the islanders living in The Netherlands recognize that the goal of an independent South Molucca is scarcely realistic. Johan Manusama, 65, president of the self-styled South Moluccan government-in-exile, regularly appears on television to urge Dutchmen not to punish other South Moluccans for the sins of the young "freedom fighters" holding the hostages...
...Belmondo plays his character straight and tough, but if this is the way we are supposed to see Le Tellier, certain long sequences in the film become irrelevant and distracting. The main plot line involves Le Tellier's search for a maniacal killer who thinks it his duty to punish women of "loose moral." Another, unrelated, killer keeps popping up at odd moments; we learn that he had repeatedly outsmarted Le Tellier in the past and that he had almost cost the cop his job because of uncertainty concerning the death of a bystander during one of their shoot-outs...
...make a "goddess" out of this girl? Is it because she is rich? If she deserves to be punished, punish her; don't feed...
...that the city of New York has?" Inevitably, only a few hands were tentatively raised, which the President obviously regarded as evidence that the people support his position. But top Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson and Party Chairman Robert Strauss, charged that Ford was trying to punish overwhelmingly Democratic New York and play on the anti-New York sentiments in the country...
...keeping their guns than other Americans care about disarming them. Though polls indicate that 64% of the public favors some kind of tougher Federal restrictions on guns, these people do not carry the political weight of the determined and well-organized gun supporters. They have proved that they will punish a politician if he so much as mentions gun control, and they have shown that they can defeat...