Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lack of food (no eggs, milk, buttered bread, fresh meat); 2) Heat; 3) Despair growing out of the Baumes Laws, with long terms, reduced paroles, no time off for good behavior; 4) Bedbugs, lice, insanitary plumbing; 5) Overcrowding in cell blocks; 6) Petty graft by low-paid guards; 7) Tyranny of prison self-government (Mutual Welfare League...
...Washington, Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, gave these reasons for the Leavenworth uprising: 1) Overcrowding (the penitentiary's capacity is 2,000); 2) Lack of sufficient work; 3) Effect of the heat on drug addicts; 4) News of the New York prison riots...
...line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...
...connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees where women...
...sentiments, I don't mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head of the kegs was bulged. I worked...