Word: bedless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even know the charge against him. Day after day, for the first five months, interrogators took turns questioning him in two-hour shifts, during which he was never allowed to sit down. He was moved 15 times in those four years, from prison to prison and cell to bedless cell, with from six to 13 cell mates. During the first year there were only two meals a day of bread and vegetables. Bishop Pinger's Bible and rosary were confiscated. "There is freedom of religion in the new China," his warders told him, "but not for prisoners." They lectured...
Santo Caminito was thrown into a bedless cell. His family and a lawyer retained by relatives were denied permission to see him. Relays of detectives questioned him for 27 hours, giving him almost no rest. To show Caminito how hopeless his cause was, the police worked a trick: a male detective and two women from the pickpocket squad, posing as witnesses to the crime, confronted Caminito and pretended to identify him as the driver of the getaway car. Caminito finally signed a confession (he later signed a second one) and was duly sentenced to life in prison after the confessions...
...Bedless Bedlam. Mexican Ambassador Primo Villa Michel had never troubled to hide his sympathy for the Red-lining old regime. As a reward, his midtown embassy got 416 of the new refugees. The building is a high-ceilinged old house of 20 offices and rooms but without grounds or garden. Together with a hastily rented house next door, it soon took on the look of an 18th century slave ship. Asylum seekers, including 60 squalling babies, sprawled on mattresses spread in halls, offices and reception rooms. There was no privacy; on the stairs, people slept, read, quarreled or flirted, oblivious...