Word: shoeshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Embittered by the way the war had gone and saddened by the recent deaths of both his wife and son, General von Rundstedt had lately been living at Han-over-Klefeld in a modest third-floor flat over a shoeshop. He never wrote his memoirs. Last week, in a quiet and gentlemanly way, he died...
Last week at Canon City came the kind of situation Roy Best greets with vigorous aplomb. Five long-term convicts tried to escape, attempted to free nine troublemakers in solitary. Using a smuggled-in gun, and knives sneaked out of the prison shoeshop, they wounded two guards. But tear gas stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash...
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