Word: jailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial Vincenzina told the judge: "I had to kill him to restore my honor. There was no other way." Luckily, Ernesto survived the knifing, and the judge, allowing that "a woman must be the guardian of her own honor," sentenced Vincenzina to a mild three years in jail...
With her honor so clearly restored, even Enzo d'Agostino felt in a forgiving mood. In the chapel of Catania's prison he married her, then went home to wait for her release from jail. It might not be long; so moved was all Italy by Vincenzina's story last week that President Giovanni Gronchi was reportedly about to pardon...
...Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail on charges of stealing public funds or enriching themselves by "collaborating" with the Batista regime...
...these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
Among Ayub's reforms: ¶ The government has ordered all civil servants to write out a detailed history of their financial dealings since independence. Since businessmen and landowners now face up to 14 years in jail for tax dodging, treasury clerks have had to work day and night to handle the long lines of delinquents. Pakistan has reclaimed $16 million from private illegal holdings of foreign exchange, found two tons of gold in the seaside hiding places of a band of smugglers...