Word: jailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speer decided on the book when he was captured by the Allies. In Spandau, he wrote secretly in tight script on pieces of cardboard, tobacco paper, and even toilet tissue. A friendly jailer smuggled 1,400 pages of remembrances out for him. "I had all day to think in the garden," he recalls. "Then I could write every night until my hand just hurt too much." At Castle Wolfsbrunnenweg today, 36 filing cabinets hold paper scraps, letters, old files and 125 architect's sketches made by Hitler for the grand plan of Berlin...
...durance has been considerably less vile for the eleven G.I.s held by Cambodia since their landing craft strayed out of Vietnamese waters July 17. Their host, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, seized on Cambodia's 15th anniversary celebrations in Phnompenh last week to prove himself a more than gracious jailer...
...months he was locked in a windowless cell on the Dallas County Jail's Corridor 6-M. A "suicide watch" jailer looked in on him round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with...
...plot might be called Sex and the Country Girl, or how Mrs. Pinch-wife (Elizabeth Huddle) is schooled in the sexual duplicities of the big city. The climax is a scene of biting mockery in which Mr. Pinchwife, more jealous jailer than husband, is tricked into delivering his wife, masked, straight to Horner's seduction headquarters...
...drunk white were put into Thomas' cell. getting along fine. They the police," he said. voice called out "That's the worker you're in with!" said that his two cell immediately turned on him to beat him. He called jailer, who "came after and smiled." Then the disappeared, and returned in minutes with four policemen Thomas to the hospital...