Word: holing
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Thomas Macaulay and a host of lesser chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
Next morning one of the prisoners managed to open a window and climb out. When the guards soon afterwards opened the door to the hell hole, 194 were dead inside...
...Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces...
Last week the police found one more clue-a shoe and scarf lying near a glazed-over hole in the ice and snow covering the Cambridge reservoir. The scarf was identical with the one father Clark was wearing: his wife had given one to him and one to Tom for Christmas. Next day, when divers found Tom's body under the ice, authorities concluded that in the darkness he must have mistaken the reservoir for a snow-covered meadow. "Another victim," said Tom's father wearily, "of a criminal fraternity prank." At week's end, Deke national...