Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching in a gumbo of blood. One was her brother Roger...
...time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed a resolution urging party members to boycott South African goods for a month in protest at the appointment...
...sane man trapped in a lunatic asylum. "I have always fought Communists," he said, "and I had proof that there are Communists in the army's Cultural [indoctrination] Corps. There has been no treason, no desertion nor anything shameful in my conduct." Matos got 20 years in prison-a verdict that Castro called "most generous. I am happy because I feel that revolutionary tribunals should be generous whenever possible...
...several brushes with the law but no convictions when he set out in 1939 to promote wrestling matches and open a cabaret in Manila. When the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Lewin, no man to duck a fight, enlisted and was captured on Bataan. At the Cabanatuan prison camp he proved his organizing ability by setting up a food delivery from outside that kept the P.W.s from starvation and the Japanese guards in pin money...
...themselves on the mercy of the court. While this is equivalent to a guilty plea, the fact could not be used in civil suits, thus lessening the risk that they would be filed. The defendants were also persuaded by the fact that 1) no one had ever received a prison sentence on a nolo contendere plea in antitrust cases, and 2) the Justice Department agreed to recommend only fines ($5,000 for the companies). But Judge...