Word: jailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Faubus/But keep your powder dry." In Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of Faubus. One wired Faubus his congratulations. Another promised to back Faubus "at all costs." A third offered to go to jail to prevent integration. The fourth topped them all: he was willing to die for segregation...
...help sweep the prostitutes off the streets, the Wolfenden Report recommends that maximum penalties be increased to a ?10 fine for a first offense, ?25 the second time around, and a three-month jail sentence on a third arrest. The present ?2 ($5.60) fine even for repeated offenders has prevailed for more than a century, and is regarded by many prostitutes as a license: they keep their receipts to show bobbies that they have been run in recently. Said Probation Official Frank Dawtry: "I don't think increasing the penalty is going to have much effect-a girl will...
...person by Sal Paradise, a budding writer given to ecstasies about America, hot jazz, the meaning of life, and marijuana. The book's protagonist is Dean Moriarty ("a sideburned hero of the snowy West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest laugh in San Francisco-are forever racing cross-country to meet...
Tainted Bait. In Denver, Virgil Wilson, 25, wandered into a U.S. Secret Service agency, lifted $10 in coins from a desk drawer, smiled pleasantly at unconcerned employees, was nabbed as he left, hauled off to jail and booked for possession of counterfeit money...
Piecework. In Phoenix, Ariz., annoyed at watermelon-patch pilfering, a farmer posted a hired hand and himself on each side of his patch, waited with shotguns, gave each thief who showed up the alternative of settling out of court for $10 or going to jail, collected as much as $150 in one night...