Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funds are intended to subsidize needed public facilities and services. Officials in Danville, Ill., for example, will probably spend their $504,000 on raising policemen's and firemen's wages and building a new jail; two weeks ago, a prisoner escaped by simply bending his cell bars apart. Many states, cities and towns will use the money to cut property taxes. Though the Administration welcomes this move, which would ease pressure on Washington to provide tax relief, it is far from what revenue-sharing supporters in Congress hoped for. Atlanta will devote at least part...
...Gegal exploits it to the hill. The townspeople strain to believe that the vain, petulant, but eminently purchaseable (and therefore not so terrifying after all) dandy is a real inspector general. At the same time Khlestakov screams with fear that these locals are going to incarcerate him in their jail. But Khlestakov and his manservant Osip, are the ones who group the situation and take advantage of the confusion. Eventually, all of the feuding factions are victimized by the liar from the city...
...evidence was released this week which supports charges of police brutality in the jail cell death of East Cambridge youth Lawrence P. Largey...
...during the conflict. ("No Democrat," he noted, "can be trusted, they are all disloyal more or less.") He believed in hard work, himself, human reason, and a Life Force. He must have been a very difficult man to live with. One Roebling son, Edmund, ran away and had himself jailed as a common vagrant to escape his father. His brother Washington would later write of the runaway that in jail he "was enjoying life for the first time...
...names on the voting lists). Magistrate Arden Mounts even told Mrs. Judy Trent, victim of such a charge: "You're going to have to prove your innocence, or I'm going to have to find you guilty." She was fined $100 and sentenced to 60 days in jail...