Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...
...done time in prison. Parry had served 16 years...
...convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive in Rangoon to be baptized, the Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light of a primitive lamp. At the sight of the treasure, some villagers...
...There has never been a case ... of such a scandalous and wicked character. This has been done, not as an error of judgment, but as a matter of policy, pandering to sensationalism [to increase] circulation . . ." The Mirror was fined $40,000. Bolam was sentenced to three months in Brixton Prison (where Haigh is waiting trial), the first editor to be imprisoned under the law in 48 years...
Even the mentally ill feel television's hypnotic spell. Indiana State Prison has already reported that television 1) has a calming effect on its mental-case prisoners, and 2) results in a saving on sedatives. Last week, in rural Amityville, N.Y., Dr. George E. Carlin installed five television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...