Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said later, "sprayed me all over with tear gas. I went back to my own room and closed the door. It was very frightening, because stones were coming through the windows. In a few minutes they were pounding on my door and starting to make a hole in it with their knives. There was only one thing to do. I flung open the door and went right out into their midst. I put out my hand, saying, 'I am an American, just a plain American, and we're your friends.' One boy looked at me and said...
MURDER IN JACKSON HOLE, by Maude Parker (243 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), has the virtue of an unusual setting: a dude ranch in Wyoming. However, there is one trouble with leaving a really despicable intended victim too long on the scene: the reader rather hates to see a murder rap pinned on any of the nice folks who are left...
...would have sunk to the bottom if Cook had not been canny-and humble- enough to accept a timid midshipman's suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared sail under the ship and over a shattered spot in the bottom. Pressure clotted the sail to the hole, and the Endeavour and her men were saved. Though the East Australia coast was only 25 miles away, Cook's wisdom, the midshipman's wit, and even the crew's will were undoubtedly sharpened by the knowledge that another ship was not likely to be coming their...
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...
...director of institutions less than a month ago. Within 20 hours after the conferences began, the prisoners had won all of their key demands : 1) a promise that prison authorities will try to circumvent a state law providing special punishment for rioting or holding hostages, 2) transfer from "the hole," 3) establishment of an inmate council, 4) a survey of parole practices and an annual review of sentences. 5) a study of mail-delivery practices. Then the prisoners swaggered back to their cells...