Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven prisoners, lodged in an upstairs cell block of the Dallas County Courthouse, overpowered a guard and started a dramatic getaway. One of them, brandishing a "pistol" carved out of soap and blackened with shoe polish, pushed his way into the crowded second-floor corridor of the courthouse...
...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...
...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
...Voyager officer was walking along a corridor when the Melbourne's bow knifed through a few yards behind him, and he was swept out through the hole left by the collision. Another officer was drinking coffee in the wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam to the surface," he recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open...
...months ago, East Germany charged Erhard's Refugee Minister, Hans Kruger, 61, with having served as a "hanging judge" on a special Nazi court in the Polish Corridor town of Chojnice (then Konitz). From 1940 to 1943, said the Communists, some 2,000 Poles were executed in Konitz, with Kriiger pronouncing at least five death sentences for petty infractions of Nazi law. Kriiger, a bespectacled lawyer whose chubby cheeks are badged with dueling scars, admitted Nazi Party membership and service as a police judge in Konitz, but denied he had dealt any death sentences. Nonetheless, Erhard prudently decided...