Word: dungeonful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although they were confined to "the hole," a dungeon for "maximum custody" prisoners, the four had managed to make keys to their cells. In a matter of minutes they had nine hostages, including Associate Warden Theodore Bezzerides, and had established themselves in the prison's control room. From there one of them telephoned Business Manager William Connell in the administration building and said: "This is Bezzerides; I'd like to have you come in." Connell did not recognize the voice, asked: "What's your wife's first name?" "Go to hell," snarled...
...palace and began a direct attack on the rebels. At the end of 28 hours, with 23 rebels and one palace guard dead, Colonel Ahmed Thalaya gave up. Abdullah, guarded by heavily armed slaves, taken for a ride in a jeep in the direction of the rock dungeon of Hajja, was later reported executed. News leaking from Yemen told of the old Imam leading the defeated colonel into the square in front of the palace and crying to the crowd: "Look at this man. I personally sent him to be educated in Iraq. I made him chief of the army...
...want you to know that this office shares your opinion of Fogg Large Room as a spot to spend three of the pleasantest hours of a Harvard man's life, and that no one is ruthlessly sentenced to risk myopia in that genteel dungeon...
...Claverly Hall, once the vault of Gold Coast opulence, and later the dungeon of scholastic indolence, has now achieved a new and satisfying role; an integral part of the House system...
Christianity has a long prison record. Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...