Word: penal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is how one lag (longterm convict) apostrophized Australia in the early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with...
...goanna lizard, a grubber for grubs. Author Gibbings' narrative suggests that to a lively Irishman this simple life was simply and literally a bore. Eventually, Graham gave himself up to "the authorities." But after he was back in irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there was a wild white woman living among the savages. Graham was accepted as a volunteer to rescue her. She was Mrs. Fraser, wife of the master of the Stirling Castle, which had foundered off the Australian coast. Stranded in the wilderness, Mrs. Fraser was drafted into a tribe...
...being three years behind in its work, it is now only a month behind. He changed the rules so that fishermen can now get a license by producing only an identity card instead of a good-conduct certificate, a notarized proof of signature and a police reference showing no penal record. Between helicopter swoops on unsuspecting offices all over Italy, Medici proclaimed his goal: "Democracy will become a reality only when any citizen can write to any state functionary with the certainty of receiving a clear, quick, satisfactory reply...
Most of the political prisoners released were accused of wartime treason and collaborating with the Germans, Berman was told. These steps are all part of the general Soviet program of liberalizing in some degree the harsh Stalinist penal system...
Translation. In Memphis, the Post Office stamped "Moved-Left No Forwarding Address." and returned an unclaimed letter for an inmate of the Shelby County Penal Farm, after the farm had sent it back to the Post Office stamped "Escaped...