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Word: prisonment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petiot's chances for acquittal (still slim) improved, a book he had written in prison was published in Paris. Its title: Beating the Odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Long Shot | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead for aid. "Man," Blum read, "always goes from grief to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Which Direction? | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Moore was what the cops call a two-time loser. He had served prison terms for forgery in Michigan and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: The Man Who Knew Harry | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Bill Goddard, 32, sapper in the Royal Engineers, weighed only 57 Ibs. when found in a Formosa prison camp last September. When he arrived at Vancouver's Military Hospital three months later he weighed in at 66. His skeletal body was racked with beriberi, pellagra, dysentery, malaria and pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thin Man | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Sweet Nothings. In San Francisco, Former Inmate Joe Barnett bought candy for three prison guards with a $5 forged check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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