Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the going got rough in Washington, De Lattre was calm. Said his wife: "He has got very patient since he has gone to Fontainebleau-as patient as when he was in prison." Patiently, the man on a tightrope was waiting for America to commit an act of faith...
Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...
Sent to a prison hospital, under Soviet guard, Anders was plainly told that he could hope to save his life only by enlisting in the Red Army. He refused-and the Russians went to work...
...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...
Caviar at Home. Without socks, wearing prison pants, and carrying a suitcase that contained only a worn bathing suit (not his), Anders was whirled away from Lubianka in a limousine and ensconced in a luxurious four-room apartment. There he was given two servants and quantities of champagne, cognac and caviar...