Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regret my decision. It was a painful one, but it was just." A few days later the magistrate suddenly fell ill and died. "An unfortunate coincidence," said his physician. So was the discovery that the day before he sentenced the Widow Christos to jail for her night sewing, Magistrate Rose had fined a man ?10 ($28) for indecently assaulting a six-year-old girl...
Carlson produced affidavits indicating that native workers are often brutally beaten by farm superintendents and that most of them live in hideous squalor. They get sacks to wear in the fields and are fed cold porridge, occasionally with scraps of meat. At night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor...
Chanting Police. Its methods of recruitment are novel: believers go in relays to the house of a hoped-for convert and, day and night, chant the magic formula. Irate neighbors frequently call the police but are sometimes flabbergasted to find that the policemen often belong to Soka Gakkai too, and join their voices to the chanting. Often the unfortunate target will give up and become a member of Soka Gakkai just to get some sleep...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...
...amphetamine pills, a prescription drug sometimes used by former addicts to curb their craving for stronger fixes. Rapped $55 for not having a narcotics user's identity card, he had only $1 and some small change to propitiate the law. The money to spring him after a night in jail was put up by Author Croswell Bowen. Shane O'Neill's collaborator on the current bestselling The Curse of the Misbegotten, a candid saga of the O'Neill family's tragic, repetitive journey into night...