Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past all sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
Toshio Machida, a former prison guard, now accused as a war criminal, wrote to one of his former prisoners, ex-Sergeant George J. Peil of New Orleans, asking for intercession to save his life. Replied ex-Prisoner Peil last week...
...awareness of the terrifying "powers" that control the destinies of man. Sometimes these omnipotent powers assume human shape. They become "authorities," "officials," "advisers"-suave, tough men & women with hypodermic syringes who may rudely invade your own home at any moment, pack your suitcase, and drive you away to "prison" in a closed car-while the husband who once told you he loved you looks the other way, or assists the invaders...