Word: jailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jorge in the Portuguese Azores pitched like a cork. It was another of the unsettling earthquakes that periodically shake the middle-Atlantic archipelago. As Sao Jorge's 20,000 inhabitants fled into the streets, at least 1,200 of their stone and tile houses crumbled, and the local jailer saved the lives of his five prisoners by freeing them on parole shortly before the hoosegow collapsed. An eleven-ship rescue fleet evacuated 1,800 islanders, whose chief, and understandable, concern was the plight of their abandoned unmilked cows...
Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...
...bars, despite Farmer Fernandes' pleas that the animal had only kicked in self-defense. Months passed. The other prisoners, being human, had protested that the donkey stank; even worse, it brayed all night. The prison cook complained because he had to prepare special meals for the donkey. The jailer, grumbling that cleaning up the animal's cell had doubled his work, threatened to go on strike unless he got extra...
Hitchcock's dialogue is consistently well-paced (if not delivered with consistent smoothness) and often piquant with dry wit. "You have the sensitivity of an artichoke" Muscari tells his jailer soon before the execution, and then is told he has visitors. "Are they publishers?" he asks quickly, but they are only advocates...
...been sweating it out in a Florida jail, while his lawyers try to arrange bail on extradition charges. On a low-fat prison diet, Jimenez has lost 16 lbs. and is down to 166 lbs. "If you ever find yourself gaining weight after you get out," said a sympathetic jailer, "feel free to come back here for your meals...