Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mordant Retort. In Catanzaro, Italy, Carmelo Buongiorno, a Communist, was sentenced to four years in prison for ending a political argument by biting off his opponent's nose...
...nine years since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
Three years ago Père Riquet preached to his first large Paris audience, dressed in the faded, striped prison uniform of Dachau (where he was sent for helping U.S. and British flyers escape from France). So great was his success that he was appointed prédicateur (preacher) at Notre Dame. Since then, half of Paris has come to hear him-including Communist Chieftains Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, as well as middle-road Premier Schuman...
...victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
...boys are interested in," said one, "is women and shirking work"). The teachers rapped knuckles, shouted and yelled. One teacher ripped up pupils' notebooks whenever they were not perfectly neat. Another punished a child by having the whole class line up to smack him. In P.S. 10 ("A prison," said the school's principal), some kids were kept away from class for as long as a month, seated in an anteroom where teacher-clerks, to discipline them, kept them idle and quiet...