Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unbeaten in two years of competition with such universities as Princeton, Harvard and Boston, the Norfolk, Mass. Prison Colony debating team lost an argument to Brown. Subject: universal military training...
...purge continued smoothly. Action committees took over breweries, the movie industry, the national soccer team, the table-tennis association. Even the Boy Scouts had an action committee. All public officials suspected of being anti-Communist were dismissed. The director and chief physician of the state prison in Mlada Boleslav were removed and punished "for overfeeding collaborationist prisoners...
...Berlin, via Amsterdam, with a passport bought from an American sailor. For six months he managed to send a steady stream of dispatches to the Chronicle before the Germans identified and arrested him. After narrowly escaping execution as a spy, Pyke made a bold daylight escape from a prison camp and returned to Britain...
...Prison Verses. In 1928, Blanco started the anti-Gomez weekly El Impartial, soon made it the most influential paper in Caracas. In due time a copy fell into Tyrant Gómez's hands and Editor Blanco went to jail, spent four years in grillos (leg irons). "I witnessed tortures that were incredible," he said. "I saw them sentence one man to 1,000 lashings and saw him die after...
...prison, Blanco poured out verse. His jailers gave him no paper because they knew the power of his pen; he scratched his verses on prison walls, memorized what he had written. His poems were carried outside the walls to become part of the people's lore...