Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walls of Mokotow. The front window of Mikolajczyk's four-room apartment opened on the grim red walls of Warsaw's Mokotow Prison. Behind these walls in recent weeks, Poland's Soviet-style secret cops had grilled Mikolajczyk's party lieutenants in relays. Lately, "confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...
Volunteer. In Raleigh, N.C., Escaped Prisoner Junior Daniel Watson came back after a year's absence, explained that he had since joined the Army, had come to the conclusion that prison was better...
Gibbon had planned his operation with care. With food and equipment stacked up in Java and Singapore, Gibbon and 25 oilmen had entered Sumatra soon after war's end. They combed the Japanese prison camps for some 650 Dutch and Eurasian Standard employees. But it was not until the spring of 1946 that Gibbon got his first U.S. shipment of steel and heavy equipment, and was able to begin rebuilding the plant...
...little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell in love right there...
...Never before was black terror so openly insolent in the U.S. Everything honest and brave is exiled or put in prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem...