Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, one might almost expect Houdini's specter to pop up somewhere on Halloween, among the trick or treaters. For certainly, Houdini was not a man who could easily be forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands...
...added that he does not know if the telegram will have any effect on the Vorster government's decision to hold Qoboza in jail without specifying any legal charges against...
Meanwhile, Alison tries to resuce her ungrateful daughter from Wallacia, a Communist satellite in the Balkans, where Jane has encountered the misfortune of killing two Wallacians in a car accident, earning herself a potentially open-ended jail term...
...take Booth and his compatriots seriously. One member of the group, Bruce Parmentier, joined the movement after several years as a lawyer. He began his career as a public prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, but quit the job when he found that he no longer wanted to jail the people he was prosecuting...
...dutifully answered, but when Van Hattum appeared she tartly replied: "I have been told all my life that my vote was a private thing and that I'd never have to tell anybody how I voted." The judge then told her she would have to go to jail for contempt, and a bailiff handcuffed her and held her in a waiting room for the rest of the session. When another illegal voter, Diane Lazinsky, 27, also refused to disclose how she had voted, the judge postponed the case and threatened to jail both women. Michigan's court...