Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...just fallen down, no one now knew. He mumbled his name & address to police before they threw him into the holdover. Next day he was fined $50 for disorderly conduct. No one had attempted to notify his family. Unable to pay the fine, he was sent to the prison hospital. There he died. Still his family was not notified. What had happened to his body...
Tall and grey, his face gaunt, his SS uniform rumpled and shorn of insignia, the condemned man last week faced his judges in the grim yard of Prague's Pankrac Prison. Ranged before him were the judge and jury who had tried him two days before. The yard was filled with spectators-some 3,000 hard-eyed Czechs. Prominent among them sat seven widows from a village once known as Lidice...
...politicking last year, long-undercover Communism had bloomed like a jungle flower. In last winter's elections, the Communists had rallied 600,000 votes behind a presidential candidate little known three weeks before. One Rio senator was a Communist: Leader Prestes, for the anniversary of whose liberation from prison Communists last month had rounded up the largest rally in Brazilian history. The majority of Brazil's topflight intellectuals-artists, writers, architects-had lined up for Communist membership cards. Communism was so strong in Brazil that there was talk of moving hemispheric headquarters from Havana...
...pride & joy is Yvon ("Le Terrible") Petra, 30, a 6-ft.-7 terror. Le Terrible can rifle a serve with all the velocity of Tilden at his best. Petra spent 18 months in a German prison camp with his 6-ft. Davis Cup mate, Pierre Pellizza...