Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentioned, a favorite method of persuasion is the electric treatment . . . To drive a car here is as near to terror as can be. The traffic police can stop you for no reason whatsoever, accuse you of speeding (even if you are standing still), and haul you off to jail for a stay of ten days or a fine of anything...
Hideaway. In Salisbury, Md., Sheriff Jesse M. Pollitt revealed his embarrassed discovery that since Feb. 8, four of the prisoners lodged in the county jail had been breaking out almost nightly, robbing local business establishments and breaking back in again before morning...
...Legitimate Wheel. So far as Rocky was concerned, only one thing was worse than being in jail: being in the Army. Drafted in 1942, just as he was beginning a career in professional boxing, he rebelled against military discipline, flattened his captain with a fast right, went AWOL from Fort Dix, N.J. and wound up in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. A connoisseur of jails by then, Rocky found the Army brand the worst. "All I can say is, stay out of any prison run by a bunch of amateurs...
...Jail in the Water. His debt to the Army paid. Rocky drifted back to the big city and wound up where he belonged -in the prize ring. There were distracting influences. Rocky got married, and his wife would burst into tears when he came home with his face looking like a leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated...
...town. My name is Rocky Graziano . . . and what's yours? I got a right to ask anybody that, even a cop . . . It's a free world and it's a big country which I know stretches away across the Jersey flats to where the jail is in the water, San Francisco. I am happy that I am Rocky Graziano and that I am living in this here country...