Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman. She has an artful smile and a nonchalant manner. The woman walks slowly along the sidewalk and looks men in the eye. Later at the police station we meet Nadezhda M. She is in no way ashamed. Finally she is free, for one cannot put her in jail. There is no specific...
...Court's refusal to review the case on April 27, 1953, and in between there are Hiss' interpretations of the hearings, trials, and fruitless appeals. He selects the testimony he discusses with great care to prove to the world that Whittaker Chambers lied about Alger Hiss. He blames his jail term on a succession of misfortues--a bad political climate. an irresponsible grand jury; an inefficient second judge (Henry W. Goddard); an unscrupulous prosecutor (Thomas Murphy); and a poor Court of Appeals judge (Harrie B. Chase...
...drug was reportedly found in the South End apartment of a high school friend, who is now serving a jail sentence for auto theft. The box, shipped from a mail order house, contained the name and address of the Harvard student, who was then picked up by police...
Keeping Fit. In Pittsburgh, Fred Collins got four to eight months in the county workhouse for stealing a $78.75 pension check from his cellmate in the North Side police station jail...
...policeman fingered his chin. Should he take the thing to jail or to the city dump? And then all at once it started running. In an instant the entire police force was in hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...