Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pack-jammed convict ships which once plied between Britain's jails and the prison pens of Botany Bay had nothing on the destroyer Yoizuki. She was a hell-ship to match the worst of them. Sailing from Sydney last week, the reconditioned 3,000-ton Jap warship had room for only about a third of the 1,005 homeward-bound Formosans, Filipinos and Jap P.O.W.s crammed aboard her. In the hot, fetid holds there was little air, no toilets and barely enough water...
...victory and one defeat is the week-end score for the Debate Council, with one team taking the measure of a visiting Kings Point squad Saturday on the subject of compulsory military training, and another team beaten Sunday by a trio of debaters at the Norfolk Prison Colony on the subject of free trade. The next debates for the Crimson will be on March 22-23, against Columbia, West Point, and Wesleyan...
...forgets it and gets to talking about a stray cat from a carnival pitch, a good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...
...killed. Another torpedo struck home. The Houston lay dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
Congressman James Michael Curley had scarcely resumed his job as mayor of Boston-after drawing a six to 18 months' prison sentence for mail fraud-before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...