Word: willfullness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in...
Trial to All. From his first workout, Trainer Don Cameron and the staff at Stoner Creek, the Hertzes' Kentucky farm, had their hands full. Count Fleet was mischievous, willful. During a morning breeze he used to stop suddenly and paw the air. He walked sideways, jumped over his shadow...
For five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to...
Winston Churchill's hunched body rose, his heavy gold watch chain shining in Parliament's yellow-glassed sunlight. His hands were in the pockets of his jacket. His great, willful, strangely babylike head surveyed a packed House, and his words began to growl. For two days Winston Churchill...
But, if the delinquency is willful, the Federal Government has a big stick: a $10,000 fine, a year in jail. Anyway, most citizens would rather go to any expense than tangle with a Revenue man.