Word: heginbotham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coventry has become a common form of social punishment. Labor leaders estimate that in the last several years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...
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