Word: jailers
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...wonder, then, that such a motley class has assembled here on the bleak prairie outside Waco. There are a former helicopter pilot and a nurse, out-of- work oil roughnecks and two grandmothers, a bookkeeper and a county jailer. Even a computer programmer. People with lives gone sour or careers on hold. People treading water, looking for a break. For them the open road beckons as a great new beginning. "I'll make my husband's $45,000 within two years," whispers Goodrum. She and a friend have enrolled so they can travel the country with their trucker husbands...
...occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...
...people were killed and more than 100 injured. In the predawn darkness Saturday, rescuers were still digging away at the wreckage of homes illuminated only by the lamps on the workers' mining helmets. Bodies were laid out in a school bus converted into a makeshift morgue. Said Reeves County Jailer Janie Rodriguez: "The town is completely gone...
...will remain. Much of the operetta's bibulous humor depends on a generous tolerance for drunk jokes, but these times do not find inebriation quite as amusing as formerly. Further, Director Schenk's maladroit adaptation of the libretto is not particularly funny, although his appearance as Frosch, the tipsy jailer, has a couple of comic moments amid the prevailing tedium. But Die Fledermaus should soar and sparkle, not merely be endured...
During the early weeks of martial law, recalls Cory, she could not watch television lest she see Marcos or her husband's official jailer, Defense Minister Enrile (the man who signed the arrest warrant was none other than General Ramos). In her conjugal visits, she had to share her husband with hidden cameras and bugs. Once, when Ninoy's guards simply removed him from sight for more than six weeks, Cory was forced to wander from prison to prison in search...