Word: prisonment
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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...
...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...
...Moore was what the cops call a two-time loser. He had served prison terms for forgery in Michigan and California...
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...
Sweet Nothings. In San Francisco, Former Inmate Joe Barnett bought candy for three prison guards with a $5 forged check...