Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quare Fellow. In this movie version of his first successful play, Brendan Behan storms out against capital punishment. And, because Irishmen laugh when others might weep, he also laughs at the way men are made to live in jail, and condemned...
...waiting wasn't over. Judge Thomason said that he would not pass sentence for two weeks. When he does, Billie Sol could get a maximum of 25 years in prison on the federal charges. He has already been sentenced to eight years in jail on swindling charges brought by the state of Texas...
...persuaded Heidi Goercke, 25, and her brother Hans, 21, to cross the frontier from Freiburg, Germany, and warned them that they must talk their father into coming home from Egypt or else he would face "serious" trouble. Eavesdropping on the conversation, forewarned Swiss detectives tossed the Israeli operatives into jail, charged them with coercion and operating illegally on behalf of a foreign state...
...South Korea last week, a farmer named Song Kyu II traveled all the way from the southern provinces to parade before Seoul's Duk Soo Palace with a placard scrawled in his own blood: GENERAL PARK, PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO SETTLE THE CRISIS. Farmer Song was thrown in jail, along with some 200 other demonstrators who openly protested South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee's broken promise to call general elections in May and hand over power to the civilians. The wholesale arrests only served to attract more attentiom to the noisy campaign of former President...
...commission, he cooperates closely with the architect, for his designs come out of the "possibilities and opportunities afforded by the architecture of a given project. Take, for instance, a modern church that has a square-patterned concrete backdrop behind the altar. People don't like to see jail-type grids or bars behind an altar, so I design windows that destroy such patterns...