Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble a great many people long to escape, not from useful work but from worry and anxiety. The Dark Ages were not abnormally religious, but they were extremely uncomfortable and dangerous. That is why Europe was covered with monastic houses. By entering religion, men and women were assured a prison ration of the necessaries of life, and could exist in peace and safety...
...survivors of the British resistance movement were in their places. Aneurin Bevan, bearing the marks of torture [he had been captured while leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...
August. At the Utah State Prison, Warden J. H. Harris warned his charges not to use the colloquialism "We wuz robbed!" during baseball games. Both umpires, he explained, were doing time for robbery...
...testify against such Chicago mobsters as Louis ("The Man to See") Campagna, Frank ("The Immune") Maritote and Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe. This was convincing to Judge Knox, who freed Willie three years and George two years before they would normally be released for good behavior. Their prison behavior, incidentally, had been magnificent. Said Willie's lawyer: "He has the garbage cans at Sandstone shining as they never shined before...
...ELAS had their successes too. In the fashionable Kifissia suburb they dynamited their way into R.A.F. headquarters. In central Athens they stormed into forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing hands. Two days later, with both British and ELAS hot on his trail, he surrendered to the Greek police. He still wore his eyeglass...