Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...someone will jump on you during the night. They never did. But you think about those things. It was a lunatic asylum." The Florida State Hospital was indeed an insane asylum, and Donaldson was committed there by his father as a "paranoid schizophrenic" in 1957. He was a college dropout and a divorced father of three; though he had held regular jobs, he had begun complaining that he was being harassed by unknown people. Since Donaldson was given virtually no psychiatric treatment, he repeatedly sued for his freedom. After his release in 1971, a federal court awarded...
...when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side, who was serving...
Roaming Anarchists. The sources of all this concern are hard-core members of a group of anarchists who call themselves the "Red Army Faction," but are popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. On trial are Ringleader Andreas Baader, 32, an art school dropout; Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist; Gudrun Ensslin, 34, a former teacher; and Jan-Carl Raspe, 30, sociologist. A fifth defendant, Holger Meins, died in prison last November after a two-month hunger strike. All are middle-class revolutionaries who emerged from the 1968 student rebellions in Germany determined to destroy "the System...
WHEN WILLIAM POWELL. Boston brahmin dropout from the purposeless life of the idle rich reveals at the end of La Cava's My Man Godtrey that his idea of how to cure Depression America's woes is to build nightclubs staffed by the unemployed, the letdown we feel is the characteristic failure of. Hollywood comedies about social problems. Throughout the film. Powell describes the injustice of a system which permits the callous extravagance of the society families he serves as butler, yet when the smoke clears the flowing champagne on Sulton Place drowns the social' criticism which gave the film...
...List. Their captive turned out to be Marshall Fields, 25, a college dropout and taxi driver who had been behaving erratically since his father died last May. The elder Marshall Fields, who had been an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, had served in Arab countries, where the son became fascinated by the Islamic religion. He had been put on the Secret Service list of people to watch because he had sent packets to news agencies threatening some kind of dramatic action on Christmas Day. Some messages were signed in his own name, others "Merry Christmas." Fields...