Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after this pleasant diversion, the will is a nasty shock. Out of the million-dollar estate, Good-Time Charlie gets only a gold watch, some books and a few bottles of wine-not much use to a man who is unemployed, $12,000 in debt, and threatened with jail because of a bad check...
After deliberating for an hour, the court-martial found Kenyon guilty of acting "willfully" to avoid carrying out "a warlike operation in the air when under orders." Sentence: dismissal from the service and one year in jail...
...decimal. On the TV show, he follows the old Black Jack rule, 'Always hit 16, always stick on 18.' Once on TV when Charlie reached 17, I told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual...
...despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took the burden of responsibility on himself, saved De Lesseps from the ignominy of jail. But 25 years later the Panama Canal became a reality...
Omnibust. In Chatham, England, concluding that he was not getting enough attention after his girl friend broke a date, Bus Driver John Hamilton attempted to smash his bus against her house, bogged down on the lawn, grumbled as he was led off to serve six months in jail: "If only I'd had a good run, I would have got through...