Word: slammer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the swami faces up to 20 years in a Swiss slammer, he is unrepentant and rejects the charges as part of the "filth spreading round the world." Whatever the law decides, placid Winterthur will not soon forget the time the cuckoos escaped from their clocks...
...helmet to the ice with his stick, brother George threw a punch at the Tiger. George went to the pevalty box for four minutes: two for roughing and two for unsportsman-like conduct. George received the second penalty for going after Tresham while on his way to the slammer. Harvard killed them both...
...German for nut tree, as well as Alberto Avellano and A.F. Oreshnik, which have similar meanings in, respectively, Spanish and Russian. E. Richard Johnson is another con, whose fine first novel, Silver Street, won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award in 1968. Johnson, alas, is back in the slammer: a slight case of armed robbery...
...federal system of laws and determine the way the nation runs. A prime example is the United States Criminal Code, a confusing profusion of laws that determine what is illegal in the eyes of the federal government and how many years a crime can land you in the slammer. Americans on all sides of the political spectrum agree that the Criminal Code is sorely in need of revision. In fact, the Code has never been fully systematized; it was last indexed in 1909. There are still laws on the books that make it a crime to interfere with government carrier...
Bethel, who pestered Harvard all night with his forechecking and his menacing shots, scored his second goal of the night with the Crimson's Murray Dea in the slammer for interference. It took B.U. just nine seconds to connect fatally on its seventh power-play opportunity...