Word: jailed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state "orphans" selling magazines were arrested Saturday on a charge of trespassing and soliciting in the Yard dormitories. Hauled away to the Cambridge jail, one of the youths lamented, "We weren't soliciting, just making friends...
...salesmen was brought about when a Holworthy boy, in an effort to find someone to share the cost of a subscription, burst into his proctor's room. The proctor immediately summoned the Yard policemen, who after questioning the boys called Cambridge police. The orphans were taken away to jail at about 6:15 Saturday, but were almost immediately bailed out by an agent of the subscription company, who maintained that all the magazines purchased will be delivered...
...especially pessimistic on the chances for an immediate end of the Algerian controversy. He pointed out that any settlement would have to be achieved with the collaboration of the Algerian provisional government. But, he said, this group is recommending as its representatives several rebels who are now in jail. Until negotiations can approach a more serious level, Duroselle stated, the continuation of the strife seems likely...
...stubborn idealist who was often destitute and at least once excommunicated, Miguel de Cervantes was in and out of jail as he worked on Spain's greatest classic, Don Quixote, published in 1605. Like his creator, Don Quixote was the object of ridicule. He charged giants that turned out to be windmills, fought armies that were flocks of sheep, worshiped the purity of a peasant wench who was gifted at salting pork. But in humanism's world of reason, Don Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today...
Night Break. In Bonn, a sign on the city-jail gate reads: "Persons wishing to give themselves up will be admitted only weekdays from...