Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe of actors, are invited to perform privately before a privileged all-white audience, Fugard surprisingly accepts. But instead of the scheduled comedy, the company presents The Coat, a jolting play about a black man unfairly sent to jail...
...year-old Boston man was in jail yesterday on charges of breaking into Dana Palmer House this week and stealing a number of items from a room there, police said...
Charles T. Doherty was being held in the Middlesex County Jail yesterday in lieu of $250 cash barl, a corrections officer who refused to identify himself reported...
...handled his kind of work were occasionally stoned to death. Robin Hood and his Merry Men may have put many an arrow into the rumps of this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...
Even if the arrested students should eventually be acquired, that will give Harvard no excuse to discipline them by its own processes. The demonstrators were subjected to police action, including the threat or actuality of brutal action, thrown into jail, and obligated at least to seek legal help. In short, Harvard placed them on the in-basket of the judicial process, under circumstances where the University's power to extricate students was both practically and logically compromised...