Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect him to act in any other than a hostile manner toward the Left? We must take into consideration that in a recent poll, the students of Harvard indicated that they wished to be exempted--meaning simply that they did not want to go and fight (or go to jail). And we do not believe they should--nor that anyone should be faced with these alternatives...
Powell is a Congressman without a constituency, for the minute he goes back to his New York City district he risks being clapped in jail under contempt of court sentences, which total 16 months and spring from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Negro widow. That and his alleged gross misuse of committee funds for his own enjoyment were the reasons for his disbarment. The action was as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Not in the 56-year history of the House's seniority system had a committee chairman been sacked for any sin other than...
Fully 200,000 skilled managers and technicians have fled the country; hundreds more are in jail for political crimes. Wheat, usually harvested Dakota-style with giant combines, will henceforth be grown on uneconomical 40-acre plots by government decree. Not even the weather has cooperated with the Baath: 1966 brought a crop failure that severely cut wheat and cotton production and drained Damascus of precious foreign exchange. Western banks have almost unanimously refused to lend further money. To try to recoup some cash, Jadid recently cut the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline through Syria and attempted to blackmail...
...bribe to lease some California oil lands to a drilling company. Officials removed his picture from the pantheon of former Secretaries and carted it off to storage. There it remained through the years, while Fall fought an appeal through the courts, eventually served a one-year jail term in 1931 and died a broken man in 1944. Last week Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall had the painting brought back to hang outside his office. Explained Udall: "I simply felt that he was entitled as a former Secretary to have his portrait hanging with those of other Secretaries...
...tradition," said Süddeutsche Zeitung. He also distills from experience. The illegitimate son of a seamstress, Janssen spent his adolescence in an SS training academy, became an alcoholic by the age of 22, ran a liquor parlor hard by Hamburg's reeking Reeperbahn, served seven months in jail in 1951-52 for stabbing his fiancée in the abdomen in a fit of jealous rage...