Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most campaign promises have a limited scope. A recent candidate for jailor promised his neighbors to buy a new coffee pot and make sure the jail's toilet tissue dispenser was always full. Other aspirants rely on more tested means, like the hopeful who left bottles of bourbon on doorsteps throughout town. And occasionally the elections can get nasty. Last year, the independent candidate for sheriff shot his opponent and continued to campaign from the jail...
...acquired freshman would have faced a jail sentence of 10 to 20 years if he had been convicted. Mel Nasielski, an administrative assistant to the Philadelphia district attorney, said Judge Leonard Ivanoski discharged the defendant due to insufficient evidence that the plaintiff actually was forced to have intercourse...
...OBJECTS will deteriorate, the characters will fade from memory, and what will remain, is meaning. "Crime Does Not Pay," the banner on Boston's second largest daily the day Locke went to jail, is the first and simplest that comes to mind. But it does not ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational...
Prison terms, including an 18-month stay at the notorious Robben Island, dotted the next few years of Brutus's life. He tried-to escape from jail twice. Once he got as far as Mozambique, where he was returned to the South Africans by the Portuguese secret police. On the second attempt, a policeman shot him in the back in Johannesberg...
...recipient Joseph Thloloe spent more than two years in jail in the late 1970s as a result of his reporting on race-related labor problems for several major Johannesburg newspapers...