Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unknowing Communist functionaries used the picture to advertise the home comforts of their jail. When a horse laugh heard around the world apprised them of their gaffe, the jailers turned on their hapless prisoners. Although all the men in the picture were tortured, they were elated by their feat. "About everybody in the crew was happier than hell," Law recounted, "because everybody could see what we were trying to do." Making fools of their captors and signaling their view of North Korea's crude propaganda had made the exercise worthwhile...
...wife Margaret about the crime, and likens it to an earlier conversation he had with one of the murderers. "There had been questions pounding behind my tongue . . . What did she do? What did they say to each other? What was it like to do it? For me in the jail, for Margaret in our drawing room, those questions boiled up: out of a curiosity which was passionate, insistent, human and at the same time corrupt...
Passed over for the job of court conductor at Weimar, Bach landed a similar position with Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen; the defection so angered Duke Wilhelm that Bach was clapped in the Weimar jail for a month. Once he arrived at Cothen, Bach devoted five placid, productive years to superb keyboard and chamber pieces, including the French Suites for harpsichord, the unaccompanied music for cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from...
...holing places is near a laundry, where several cruisers filled with slumbering cops were spotted a few weeks ago. Atlanta cops have been known to seek out "pits," usually in lovers' lanes or in a tunnel beneath the city. Los Angeles policemen are occasionally caught dozing on a jail pallet or in a patrol car. Just last week two Chicago patrolmen were suspended briefly for sleeping while on duty. In Washington, where the custom is known as "huddling," many a drowsy cop is awakened only when headquarters activates the shrill buzzer on his walkie-talkie...
...others." In other words, he would rather not have to deal with military men as colleagues, but they have a right to go about their business. As a student faced with the draft, I find this attitude obscene. No one likes to face the choice of the army or jail, and there wouldn't be very many guys in ROTC if the draft weren't on their backs. If I were now in the army, I would still find Hoffmann's hands-off attitude obscene, because I and my comrades would be forced to kill and be killed while...