Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 30 minutes of hellish panic, the Chimara rolled over, sank at once. Down with her went 200 or more, mostly women & children-and 40 Greek leftist guerrillas chained in her hold (their destination had been an exile camp in the Aegean Islands). Many who had quit the ship died in the sea. Hours later fewer than 200 survivors were accounted for. The dead and missing: more than...
...cops had a conference over cognac. Then the Oberwachtmeister pulled out his own little black book, approached the nearest film star and asked: "May I have your autograph?" In return, he displayed a picture of himself: "See, this is how I looked before I was sent to concentration camp-I was a big, fat man." Amid little cries of sympathy, his book rapidly filled with famous names. "Oh," he said. "My wife will be so happy with all these autographs...
There are Borstals of varying degrees, ranging from Sherwood Prison (a fairly rough place for chronic repeaters and the toughest offenders) to North Sea Camp (more like a farm-school than a prison). English juvenile delinquents, after "weighing in" (sentencing), are sent to Wormwood Scrubs Boys' Prison for classifying. From Wormwood Scrubs they are shipped to the Borstal that best suits their record and personality. They do not always agree with the choice: a recurring Borstal headache is "scarpering" (running away...
...members, "an out." The presence of a strictly-non-Communist ADA guarantees to individual PCA members that, should be Communists in the PCA camp ever get too tough to handle, there's always the ADA around, "which doesn't have such troubles...
...national progressive scene there are new two organizations seeking the so-called "grass roots"--the Progressive Citizens of America, sponsored by such liberals as Henry A. Wallace and Fiorello H. LaGuardia; and Americans for Democratic Action, which has in its camp Mrs. Roosevelt's Harold Ickes, Chester Bowles, and Wilson Wyatt...