Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge of the Divorce Court is by Miguel de Cervantes, who was supposed to have written Don Quixote while in jail. Now we have an idea of what he was jugged for. The play presents several couples who appeal to the judge for divorces, and do not get them. Then somebody else comes in and complains about his wife, while nobody (either onstage or in the audience) listens. Then two musicians sing a song, and that's all. At the end, none of the characters is any better off than before, and neither is the audience...
...when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan's prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between "Bloody Harlan's" miners and company police brought out the National Guard so often that guardsmen were on first-name terms with miners they tossed into jail by the scores...
Beck was remanded to the custody of a U.S. marshal and taken to jail soon after the jury announced its verdict...
...drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some as low as $22.50 a week. Cold morality embraced Havana cops, part of them holdovers from Batista, the rest recruited from rebel ranks. The government warned that they would go to jail if they used their badges to cadge so much as a soft drink from a grocery clerk, let alone shake down a chippy...
Lenin is supposed to have remarked that there could be any number of political parties in the Soviet Union but only on one condition: the Communist Party must be in power and all the other parties must be in jail...