Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condemn Olin King for using a plastic rod at his boys' school [NATION, June 11]? When properly used, the pipe has the power to deliver a child's soul from hell (Proverbs 23:13,14). Let us condemn the mothers and fathers in this modern American society who show that they hate their children by withholding discipline from them (Proverbs 13: 24) and treat their offspring like bastards (Hebrews...
...Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with a rod until...
...Italy's case, the IMF probably served a useful political purpose in bolstering government policy against parliamentary opposition. More commonly, the fund is a political lightning rod, in part because it is so centrally involved in painful, eleventh-hour policymaking. "People lose sight of the fact that the alternative would be even worse," says a senior fund official. "I find it illuminating that some of the most vocal critics of the IMF are in countries whose economies continue to deteriorate because they refuse to follow IMF recommendations...
Some had to march out to work in the fields every day, they say, lashed together. Recalcitrants were beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh...
...bail, are angry. Said School Lawyer Oren Briggs, oblivious to the irony: "I wouldn't treat a dog like they've treated us." Why were children beaten? King, a Fundamentalist, referred to Proverbs 22: 15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." He decided on his own that plastic pipe was what the Scripture intended. Michael, 11, did not see it that way. "They didn't have the true word of God there," he said. "It was all fake...