Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French reacted with brutal ratissages, in which thousands of Moroccans were savagely beaten with clubs in the search for a handful of terrorists. Moroccans were thrown in jail simply for shouting the Sultan's name. French colons launched counterterror, shooting down Frenchmen suspected of sympathy with Moroccan aspirations...
...down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., finally ended up as a booking agent for a small jazz band in Las Cruces, N. Mex. There he wrote a phony $600 check and landed in jail...
...children's report cards as "gets along well with the group." He would like to see the return of solid rules of behavior which all kids, understood and appreciated. Instead, he finds children, his own included, Geselled and Spocked and Ilged to the point where "nothing but a jail term is going to convey disapproval." He even holds that what he learned about women from the Police Gazette was educational. And what is left of the child's fine art of doing nothing? "Many many hours of my childhood were spent in learning how to whistle...
Controlled Tantrum. In San Antonio, officials noted that inmates of the Bexar County jail, who rioted for an hour, smashing windows and breaking water pipes, had first covered up their TV sets with blankets...
Last Chance. In Kansas City, Mo., James Robert McMullin, 37, complained that his two companions robbed him of $8 while all three were being taken to jail in a patrol wagon...