Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such is the judge George Wallace must face late this month-and in Alabama's troubled times, Frank Johnson may have to punish his old friend with a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail sentence of up to six months...
Diana's worship at Vraona had a special feature: little girls dressed as bears. According to an ancient legend, a couple of Athenian juvenile delinquents killed Diana's holy bear, and she sent a pestilence to punish their city. To square themselves with Diana, the citizens agreed to send five-to ten-year-old girls of noble families to Vraona to substitute for the murdered bear. No one seems to know whether these noble nymphets took part in the orgies mentioned by Aristophanes. Dr. Papadimitriou doubts it. They appear to have been housed, and perhaps chaperoned...
...outside income-his tutoring, his wife's housework, his few shares of stock in Royal Dutch Shell. Last week all that he earned was his salary. "Mistakes," proclaimed Witte triumphantly, "are thus impossible. As assistant bookkeeper, I figure out the wage tax myself." No generous tax collector will punish him again...
Also on the positive side, Dr. Jordan holds that ulcer victims need not punish themselves with dreary diets if they use discrimination and good sense. To prove it, she co-authored (on the advice of The New Yorker's late dyspeptic Editor Harold Ross) Good Food for Bad Stomachs. Published in 1951, it is still selling, is leaded for a new edition...
...torpedo boats out to intercept a pair of Nationalist LSTs. Before the Communist craft could reach their prey, Nationalist Sabre jets flashed down with cannon roaring and, by Taipei's count, sank three of the four. Angrily, the Communists hurled two waves of 16 MIGs apiece out to punish the Sabres. In the swirling dogfights that followed, four Nationalist pilots knocked down at least five MIGs, sent the rest hightailing home. The kills brought the Nationalist total to 17 MIGs in three weeks...