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I don't know if the Representatives holding these Town Hall meeings are gluttons for punishmen or just being stupid.
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Note that solitary confinement itself is a very controversial form of punishmen and is only applied to extremely violant prisoners.
Taiwan News on most recent Chen Shui-bian detention Michael Turton 2009
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Page 299 for the purpose of shielding a fellow-student from punishmen for a disgraceful act?
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"'Upon my honor as a cadet and a gentleman,'" is a favorite expression with the West Point cadet; but what kind of honor is that by which a young man can quiet his conscience while telling a base falsehood for the purpose of shielding a fellow-student from punishmen for a disgraceful act?
Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878
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Pat Quinn will support abolishing capital punishmen...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Ho-oh lv 70 w/sacred ash sacred fire punishmen safeguard
IGN Complete 2010
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Whether his character on the popular castaway drama absorbs more punishmen ...
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