Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salonika's ancient cobblestone streets with asphalt. On inspection trips he often sat down with the work gangs and shared their cheese and olives. What was even more unheard of, he clamped down on contractors, docked them if they delayed construction beyond their contracted completion date, threatened with jail those who tried to get away with shoddy materials...
...crowd roared approval, and before the evening was over, Biaggi was in control of the Committee for Public Safety. Next day Biaggi took his oratory and obscenities to the meeting of local mayors, talked them into issuing a manifesto demanding that all convicted Algerian terrorists now in jail be hanged out of hand...
Msomi was captured and put in jail, but soon afterward, thanks to Tikoloshe, he escaped, and the blood-hunters moved on. During the months that followed, 14 more natives fell victim to their knives, clubs and axes until one day Tikoloshe announced: "You have rendered good service; now we will wash in the river and part." Arrested for petty theft, Msomi was spotted as the man wanted for 15 of South Africa's most gruesome murders. He readily admitted the crimes and even helped the police to find the skull of one of his victims...
Just a Friend. That night in jail, he slept soundly for the first time in months, stirring only to make room on his bed of rags for some unseen being. "It's a friend," he explained to his jailers, "just a friend." Msomi's jailers could not see the friend who shared his bed and his guilt, and neither could the court which tried...
Instead, the authorities sent truckloads of carabinieri out to stop the work and haul Danilo Dolci off to jail. There, charged with "subversive agitation," he languished last week awaiting trial amid cries of protest in press and parliament. The Communists of course tried to claim his cause as theirs. But, said Italy's highly influential newspaper, Corriere della Sera, though Dolci's social ideas might be a "bit oversimplified," they are undoubtedly Christian-"the duty of all to help personally those who suffer...