Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans of Wake Island and Bataan also emerged from Jap prison camps last week. They listened almost dazedly to the conversation of U.S. medical men. They had no inkling of the fact that the U.S. had 12,000,000 men under arms and that Germany and Japan had surrendered. They did not even know they had a President named Harry Truman. Asked one puzzled soldier: "What do you mean...
...name for so many other base men that somehow he seemed almost to have lost personality. At the end of the first day of his trial last week in Oslo, only 21 hard-eyed Norwegians turned out to watch him as he was led back to his fortress-prison for the night...
...Edward J. Kennedy was disaccredited by the Army for his V-E scoop. Under Gallagher in Berlin will be three Pulitzer Prize winners: Louis Lochner, prewar head of A.P.'s Berlin bureau; Daniel de Luce, wartime Balkans expert; gadabout Laurence ("Larry") Allen, who learned about Germans in Axis prison camps...
...Krishna never did. Later their father joined them for a vacation, and the four accepted a Russian invitation to visit Moscow for the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Revolution. There they were especially impressed by the clean, pleasant interior of a prison...
...attrition against the British Empire. When he and Gandhi were again arrested in 1932, Krishna, Swarup, and their delicate, aged mother took to the hustings. The two sisters were promptly clapped into jail for a year apiece; their mother shortly followed. True to Nehru tradition, Krishna found prison life "not pleasant" but "a great experience...