Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete isolation. Since the day of invasion they had been without postal, telephone or wireless communication. Like the Poles and Czechs, they had dropped out of the world...
...merit system proved itself early in the game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
Evidence in, the court lost little time giving the Speed King a divorce on grounds of his wife's misconduct...
...gospel of "cleanness and hardness," strip the weakling before an open window, force him to repeat the Apostles' Creed. Other developments: abortive homosexuality; a movement to crucify a boy who is suspected of being a Jew; ruinous invention of rumors about English Master George Toppan's misconduct with the headmaster's niece...
...boss, Attorney General Jackson, had answered Senator Norris. Absolving himself from responsibility for the Detroit arrests (they had occurred during the Attorney Generalship of Frank Murphy; one of Jackson's first acts was to quash the indictments), and absolving Hoover from any misconduct, Jackson had written Senator Norris: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation will confine its activities to the investigation of violations of Federal Statutes. ... I have asked and been promised the continued and efficient service of Mr. Hoover...