Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), 39; sentenced to death by hanging, awaiting action on his appeal at Wandsworth prison in London...
Next day Allied officers handed copies of the indictment to each of the defendants in the lightless cells of Nurnberg prison. Informed that they could choose their attorneys from prepared lists, the indicted reacted variously...
After one brief day in his Argentine Elba, the federal prison on Martin Garcia Island, Juan Domingo Perón overturned the moderates who had forced his resignation and vaulted back to the balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
Short Circuit. In Salt Lake City, escaping convicts Jack Allen and David Duvall threw a switch to cut off the prison's electric power, sounded the general alarm instead, trapped themselves...
...anonymous lady (the "Mother of Four Satisfactory Unspanked Children") really went for Mrs. Scholz and the Teen-Ager's mother: "We have been horrified by the beating of helpless persons by the cruel guards in the prison camps of Germany and Japan. Is it not time for us to be deeply shocked by ordinary American parents who use rubber hose or strap on their defenseless children...