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Word: prisonment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your story about Dr. Gisella Perl, who aborted women prisoners in Nazi camps to save them from the gas chambers [TIME, Sept. 20], you omitted [a point] of great importance. Many of these women became pregnant because they were raped by the prison guards, who then had to conceal their violation of their own "racial purity" laws by killing the defenseless women. It is easy for shocked moralists, safe in this country, to condemn Dr. Perl. One wonders how nobly moral they would be if their own wives & daughters were in a similar situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Hungarian government? 2) had they not been doing this by curtailing production? Their answers were continuously interrupted by shouts of "You're lying!" The first interrogation lasted six hours; the second, which began three hours later, lasted 15. Not until it ended were they given their first prison food-water, bread, one scrambled egg. Said Ruedemann: "It's remarkable how malleable a man can become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Or Else-- | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...parts in two unreleased films are also villainous. In her career of screen wickedness, she has already been strangled, shot, run over by a car and sentenced to prison (as a bad girl must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...four men were sentenced to 20 to 25 years at hard labor at Massachusetts State Prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Looters to Appeal | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

...appeal is forthcoming, the four will shortly begin terms at Massachusetts State Prison, Charlestown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Coop Bandits Get 20-25 Years | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

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