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corporal punishment
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  • Even though they believed in corporal punishment, it was never doled out excessively or combined with verbal abuse—spanking was methodical and anger-free.†  (source)
  • She went to school up to the eighth grade, but then, after her marriage at age twelve to a sixteen-year-old boy, she was subjected to constant corporal punishment.†  (source)
  • Corporal punishment was seldom used; it wasn't necessary.†  (source)
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  • America's sensitivity to corporal punishment ran counter to nearly everything that Beatrice and many refugee mothers had learned about keeping kids in line.†  (source)
  • The Lightwoods weren't given to corporal punishment—quite a change from being brought up by Valentine, who'd concocted all sorts of painful castigations to encourage obedience.†  (source)
  • "Corporal punishment in schools was forbidden by law," he had gone on.†  (source)
  • When he found out that corporal punishment was not my trump card, he spent his whole life improvising irritations to test my self-control.†  (source)
  • Certainly, it was now the men who were problematic, and there was stiff penalty and corporal punishment for anyone known to be infected and not seeking treatment.†  (source)
  • Eustace (of course) was at a school where they didn't have corporal punishment, so the sensation was quite new to him.†  (source)
  • Of course, corporal punishment was forbidden in the schools.†  (source)
  • How foolish to object that there was something particularly ignominious about blows administered as corporal punishment.†  (source)
  • I don't approve of corporal punishment, especially for girls.†  (source)
  • Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing.†  (source)
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