Word: jailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York, built almshouses for the indigent, but they were not institutions in the 19th and 20th century sense. In structure and routine, they were extensions of the colonial family. Even jails for debtors or those awaiting trial were homey places. Escapes were so frequent that some towns held the jailer responsible for the debts of an escaped prisoner...
...great pain, but the police left him untreated for eight hours. Finally, when a lawyer from the Mayday Collective was allowed into the jail, someone shouted that there was a prisoner with a broken bone who was being refused treatment. And the lawyer asked the jailer what was up, and the jailer said that he hadn't know that anyone was hurt, and the brother was finally taken to the hospital. And fascism, although it will mean in a sense only a quantitative extension of his suffering, will also be qualitatively different. For there- will be no lawyer, and there...
...world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...
...great pain, but the police left him untreated for eight hours. Finally, when a lawyer from the Mayday Collective was allowed into the jail, someone shouted that there was a prisoner with a broken bone who was being refused treatment. And the lawyer asked the jailer what was up, and the jailer said that he hadn't known that anyone was hurt, and the brother was finally taken to the hospital. And fascism, although it will mean in a sense only a quantitative extension of his suffering. will also be qualitatively different. For there will be no lawyer, and there...
...Council was an award of $40,000 last year to the Alianza de los Pueblos Libres, a militant group of Mexican-Americans in New Mexico. The Alianza came to national attention in 1967 when its head, Reies Lopez Tijerina, led a raid on a county courthouse in which a jailer and a state policeman were shot. Recently, the Alianza has been seeking to form an independent state based on land grants allegedly guaranteed by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the contribution infuriated New Mexican Episcopalians. Bishop C.J. Kinsolving III of Albuquerque led his diocese...