Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them and swinging to the left after advising them not to. He gets along well with the Communists...
Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
...another. Son Robert ran wild, took to playing hooky, slept in cellars and warehouses. Last month he was arrested for wounding three people with a .22 rifle he had stolen from a pawnbroker. Haled into court last week, 33-year-old Genevieve Rivera was sentenced to one year in prison for contributing to the delinquency of her 14-year...
...famed fourth leader, was moved to recall editorially that Dickens had once written about the game (" 'Very good,' exclaimed Sam Weller as, with his pint of port and his newspaper in hand, he watched the end of a game of racquets in the Fleet Street prison...
...play examines Joe Keller, an airplane parts manufacturer. With two sons of his own in the war, Keller is guilty of having sent other men's sons to their deaths by shipping out defective cylinders. Worse still, he let his partner go to prison for it. Keller's flyer son, Larry, engaged to the jailed partner's daughter, has been missing in China for more than three years. His other son, the idealistic Chris, has come home, swallowed his father's protestations of innocence, and arranged to marry his missing brother's fiancee. But Chris...