Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliver thunderous speeches to the servants, standing on a high table." At four, she was being taken by her mother to party congresses. At twelve, she organized "the Monkey Brigade," whose small members specialized in sneaking past British soldiers with political messages; at 24, she was in a British jail...
...fellow students. But most students either kept quiet or joined the violently anti-Peron group, FUA. On October 5, 1954, Peron began to close his grip on FUA. State police, dressed as private citizens, engineered a fist-fight in a student meeting in Buenos Aires and several students were jailed. FUA then called a strike, which 95 percent of the students in the city observed. Armed police then moved in on the protesting students, and the result was 200 students in jail, 500 expelled from the university. Even with most leaders in jail, however, FUA survived. It moved its headquarters...
Consumer Relations. In Houston, sentenced to a ten-year jail term for robbing the same laundry four times, Burglar Robert L. Manley said in court: "I had a grudge against that laundry, judge. I went there one day just past closing time, and the man wouldn't give me my clothes...
Night Plight. In Ventura, Calif., haled into court for driving without lights, Mrs. Florence Sandberg was allowed a month's time to choose between a fine or a jail term when the judge refused to accept her defense: "I can see like...
Prodigal. In Leicester. England, two hours after he escaped from jail. Dennis Anson rang the bell at the front gate, asked the warden to let him back in. ex plained: "I'm tired and cold. Besides. I split my pants...