Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings of locals like an itinerant troubleshooter ("I know how to coordinate all the locals, how to use them to give full strength wherever we need it"), wore out his share of shoe leather on countless picket lines ("I was picked up [off a picket line] and put in jail 18 times in 24 hours. Every time I went back...
Last week Vintner Korn was in jail in Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner...
...thought it would be a good, effective law. Their reasoning: most of the acts denying Negroes in the South the right to vote are performed by men widely known and respected in their communities, i.e., local public officials. Not many such men will want to risk 45 days in jail any more than they would want to risk a greater penalty...
Syria has a Parliament of 144 Deputies, mostly landlords and sheiks, with the nationalists and leftist extremists numbering only 18, but at least 30 of the others have fled the country or are in jail, and the rest are divided and terrified. The 18 prevail, working hand in hand with the soldiers, who may not be very good in battle, but are so far unbeatable in domestic intrigue...
...made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality who spent 27 years, half of them in jail or exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering the public order, acting as if they were at war with us or with the Algerian...