Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruel & Unusual. Next day the broadcasters were jabbed again, and in similar fashion, by FCCommissioner Charles R. Denny, who made the crack of the convention: "I take this occasion to deny that the commission is planning to punish large numbers of wayward broadcasters by forcing them to listen to their own stations two hours every day. This would be clearly unconstitutional, under the Eighth Amendment, as cruel and unusual punishment...
...Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent where she is even forbidden to write to her lover...
...Reconsider Your Policy." "Had I fought them with personal lust or for the gain of a few men, it would be I-a monstrous criminal whom heaven should punish. But if they were rebels misguided by you, then you are the murderer. In the silence of the night, think upon it . . . reconsider your policy. . . . What people hate most is war. What they need most is peace . . . you say you will struggle on for ten years more of fighting and disturbance. What would then be left for people...
...stooge Superintendent of Schools was a hard man to oust-so long as Boss Kelly stood for him. The accusations of the National Education Association (TIME, May 28, 1945) couldn't do it, though their charges were serious: that Johnson transferred 600 teachers to reward his friends and punish his enemies, for a juicy fee tutored teachers who wanted to be principals, and terrorized teachers by a network of spies...
Precise Man. With the same agility and shrewdness he had handled the Case bill, which he insisted on settling before the emergency bill went through the mill. The Case bill was permanent legislation, not designed to punish labor but to keep labor within bounds. Taft had prepared himself to follow that line. He knew exactly what he wanted to do; he was not swayed by emotion. With his colleague Joe Ball he hammered out the bill he wanted-by no means a perfect bill, but a reasonable one which Harry Truman might find it hard to veto...